[Rd] r wiki

[Philippe Grosjean]

Yihui and Gábor,

I agree with you, and I also think that using Travis CI would be very nice. However, there are hundreds of page on the R wiki to migrate… and syntax is a little bit different than Markdown.

Of course, a solution would be to start again from scratch, but I think that those who have contributed to the R Wiki deserve more respect. Any suggestion, or idea about this?

Best, 

Philippe
On 08 Sep 2014, at 23:12, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:

> I second this suggestion.
> 
> One possible complication I see is that if you would like to run the R
> code (to display its output for example), then AFAIK you cannot simply
> use Jekyll on Github's side, but would need some additional
> infrastructure.
> 
> It might be possible to use Travis (or some other) CI for it, and
> avoid installing additional software and/or servers, but anyway, this
> requires some care and effort.
> 
> If you don't want to run the code, then it is very easy, apart from
> the (one-time) migration cost.
> 
> Best,
> Gabor
> 
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> wrote:
>> I want to make a humble suggestion: migrate the wiki to Github, and
>> build the pages using Jekyll+Markdown. That way, I think it will
>> attract more volunteers. Simply look how many pull requests that
>> Hadley has got for his up-coming book hosted on Github
>> (http://adv-r.had.co.nz): https://github.com/hadley/adv-r/pulls I have
>> had the experience of maintaining web servers and different wiki/CMS
>> systems (including Dokuwiki -- I have even written a PHP plugin for
>> it), and eventually I found I could not afford the time on the job of
>> a system admin. Now I never do that again, and I just focus on
>> maintaining the content. Let the professionals do the hosting and
>> compilation service, and my life has become so much better (no more
>> worries about security holes and attacks).
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Yihui
>> --
>> Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
>> Web: http://yihui.name
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Philippe GROSJEAN
>> <Philippe.GROSJEAN at umons.ac.be> wrote:
>>> Uwe and all,
>>> 
>>> I have problems with the R wiki engine. It seems that there is a systematic attack of the R wiki site that produces an overconsumption of the server's CPU, and consequently, my provider did shutdown the whole SciViews.org web site.
>>> 
>>> Now, it is a bad time for me to work on this (very busy with exams + Master and PhD theses). I am currently looking for an expert in CMS to look at the problem. I don't know when I will be able to solve this and reopen the R Wiki.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> 
>>> Philippe
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>>> ( ( ( ( (    Prof. Philippe Grosjean
>>> ) ) ) ) )
>>> ( ( ( ( (    Numerical Ecology of Aquatic Systems
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>>> 
>>> On 06 Sep 2014, at 17:28, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Rather than asking here, I'd ask Philippe Grosjean directly, hence CCIng.
>>>> 
>>>> Best,
>>>> Uwe Ligges
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 06.09.2014 01:17, André Z. D. A. wrote:
>>>>> This does not answer you, but if you are looking for something that existed on that wiki, it may help:
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://web.archive.org/web/20140112055032/http://rwiki.sciviews.org/
>>>>> doku.php
>>>>> 
>>>>> And that wiki doesn't look like it had a lot of activity:
>>>>> https://web.archive.org/web/20140301000000*/http://rwiki.sciviews.org/
>> 
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