[Rd] R Wiki: how useful for developers?

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Thank you very much for this Philippe and everyone else who contibuted
to the R Wiki.  Great initiative and work.

I'm interested in the 'R packages section' for adding extra help on my
packages.  What kind of backup is there for the wiki?

Best

Henrik

On 6/18/06, Philippe Grosjean <phgrosjean at sciviews.org> wrote:
> Hello all R developers,
>
> I just send the official annoucement of the R Wiki at
> http://wiki.r-project.org (was also officially annouced at useR!2006). I
> would like to insist here on the aspects of the Wiki that could be of
> particular interest for you, as R developer:
>
> 1) The 'R documentation' section is dedicated to hold the latest
> "wikified" version of all Rd files (base, recommended, as well as all
> packages on CRAN and Bioconductor). Users can append exemple, discuss
> points that are unclear for them, etc. at the end of these Wiki pages.
> So, looking from time to time to these page is a good way to get
> feedback from the users to improve your Rd files. (note that, currently
> only base packages are on the Wiki; Also, several bugs in the Rd -> Wiki
> conversion still need to be fixed, but that will be done as soon as
> possible and all other Rd files will be published then).
>
> 2) The 'R packages' section of the Wiki is an ideal place to allow
> developers *and* users of R packages to add useful material like further
> examples, tutorials, tips, etc. related to your packages. Although this
> section is still in development, here is how you can create a page for
> your own package and advertise it:
>
> - After login to the R Wiki site, type this in the search box (top right
> of any R Wiki page):
>
> packages:[cran|bioconductor|others]:[pckgname]
>
> with: [cran|bioconductor|others] depending on where you package is
> located, and [pckgname] being the name of your package (note that the R
> Wiki uses only lowercase letters for page names, so that your package
> name will be automatically tranformed into lowercase in the URL of your
> page)
>
> - An error message indicate that the page does not exist yet. Click on
> 'Create this page' at the top left.
>
> - Start editing your page and click 'Save'.
>
> - Copy and paste the URL of your page in the URL section of your
> description file.
>
> Best,
>
> Philippe Grosjean
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