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

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at 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 <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.

If you could mirror the manuals to googlecode you would automatically
get an HTML interface to the diffs. e.g.

http://code.google.com/p/sqldf/source/list