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

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 30/04/2010 2:11 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> 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
Go for it.  You've got more experience with googlecode than I do.

Duncan Murdoch