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

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at 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 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
> impossible, but not trivial.
>

Just making the source diffs easily accessible would be sufficient IMHO.

For example, go to this page:
   http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?do=recent
and click on any of the eyeglass symbols.