On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Wiener, Matthew wrote: >When you think there should be new links, or can offer an example you think >would be clearer, it might be worth submitting a documentation modification >proposal (through the bug tracking link on the R home page, for example). >That would improve the basic documentation, which is what most people will >see first.
Yup, http://r-bugs.biostat.ku.dk/cgi-bin/R/Documentation?user=guest It would be good if each page (?function page) had a link to an 'update request' page. That was the idea of a wiki, to prevent overload of someone monitering the pages. > >Regards, >Matt Wiener > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Bolser >Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 1:30 PM >To: Gabor Grothendieck >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [R] R-(wiki)-pedia? > > >On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > >>Dan Bolser <dmb <at> mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk> writes: >> >>: >>: Is there an R wiki? >>: >>: Looking at the huge amount of traffic on this list, I think wiki could be >>: an exelet outlet for all the constructive enthusiasm here. >>: >>: I don't think it would be too hard to port the existing R documentation >>: (the stuff you get with the ?) onto a wiki system, then users could add >>: their own examples and comments. >>: >>: Having distinct web page style organization would be easier to navigate >>: than the mailing list archives. I like the online version of the R-docs, >>: but I miss 'user comments' and I miss being able to fix trivial things. >>: >>: The user contributed links could supply the best statistical online >>: resources to supplement the R-documentation, with links to the relevant >>: FAQ's and Tutorials supplementing the whole thing. >>: >>: Now I have said it this sounds too good to not exist already... Anyone >>: dumped the R-documentation onto a wiki system? >>: >>: Given the capability of R to be integrated into web pages, this could be >>: really really great. >>: >>: Cheers, >>: Dan. >> >>There is one at >> >>http://fawn.unibw-hamburg.de/cgi-bin/Rwiki.pl?RwikiHome >> >>Unfortunately, no one seems to use it. > >I just added some pages... I think it would be great if people could get >motivated to contribute to something like this. Its one of those cases of >just getting the ball rolling... > >Do you think you can dump the existing R-docs into this wiki as a >framework to get things going? > >So often I read the docks and think, now if only this linked here, and if >only this example were more clear etc... > >After I solve my problem I want to fix the docs. Wiki would let me do >that. > >How about you host a 'best diff in 30 days' competition each month, and >winning contributors could be announced on the list? > >Can we integrate R-embedded web pages into the wiki? > > > >> >>______________________________________________ >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>PLEASE do read the posting guide! >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> > >______________________________________________ >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide! >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >______________________________________________ >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html