[Rd] Most recent R manuals [Was: Likely disruption to R-devel builds on Windows]

2010-04-30 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Apr 30, 2010, at 4:20 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: We are planning to phase in some major changes to the R build process on Windows shortly, so expect problems and temporary unavailability of binary builds of R and of packages, and if you are building from sources, check out the latest

Re: [Rd] Most recent R manuals [Was: Likely disruption to R-devel builds on Windows]

2010-04-30 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Some easy way to find out what has changed would be desirable here. On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Simon Urbanek simon.urba...@r-project.org wrote: On Apr 30, 2010, at 4:20 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: We are planning to phase in some major changes to the R build process on Windows

Re: [Rd] Most recent R manuals [Was: Likely disruption to R-devel builds on Windows]

2010-04-30 Thread hadley wickham
Maybe Duncan could apply the same script that's being used for RNEWS to the manuals? An RSS feed of changes to the manuals would be really useful. Hadley On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com wrote: Some easy way to find out what has changed would be

Re: [Rd] Most recent R manuals [Was: Likely disruption to R-devel builds on Windows]

2010-04-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 30/04/2010 10:22 AM, hadley wickham wrote: Maybe Duncan could apply the same script that's being used for RNEWS to the manuals? An RSS feed of changes to the manuals would be really useful. My script is very NEWS specific. The manuals would be harder. You could get the diffs from svn

Re: [Rd] Most recent R manuals [Was: Likely disruption to R-devel builds on Windows]

2010-04-30 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: On 30/04/2010 10:22 AM, hadley wickham wrote: Maybe Duncan could apply the same script that's being used for RNEWS to the manuals?  An RSS feed of changes to the manuals would be really useful. My script is very

Re: [Rd] Most recent R manuals [Was: Likely disruption to R-devel builds on Windows]

2010-04-30 Thread hadley wickham
My script is very NEWS specific.  The manuals would be harder.  You could get the diffs from svn pretty easily, but displaying them would be trickier:  do you display the diffs in the .texi source, or convert to HTML and display the diffs there, or what?  How much context around them?  Not

Re: [Rd] Most recent R manuals [Was: Likely disruption to R-devel builds on Windows]

2010-04-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 30/04/2010 10:48 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: On 30/04/2010 10:22 AM, hadley wickham wrote: Maybe Duncan could apply the same script that's being used for RNEWS to the manuals? An RSS feed of changes to the

Re: [Rd] Most recent R manuals [Was: Likely disruption to R-devel builds on Windows]

2010-04-30 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: On 30/04/2010 10:48 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: On 30/04/2010 10:22 AM, hadley wickham wrote: Maybe Duncan could apply the same

Re: [Rd] Most recent R manuals [Was: Likely disruption to R-devel builds on Windows]

2010-04-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 30/04/2010 2:11 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: On 30/04/2010 10:48 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: On 30/04/2010 10:22 AM, hadley