[R] R-(wiki)-pedia?

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at myway.com
Thu Oct 7 01:49:44 CEST 2004


Dan Bolser <dmb <at> mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk> writes:

: 
: Is there an R wiki?
: 
: Looking at the huge amount of traffic on this list, I think wiki could be
: an exelet outlet for all the constructive enthusiasm here.
: 
: I don't think it would be too hard to port the existing R documentation
: (the stuff you get with the ?) onto a wiki system, then users could add
: their own examples and comments. 
: 
: Having distinct web page style organization would be easier to navigate
: than the mailing list archives. I like the online version of the R-docs,
: but I miss 'user comments' and I miss being able to fix trivial things.
: 
: The user contributed links could supply the best statistical online
: resources to supplement the R-documentation, with links to the relevant
: FAQ's and Tutorials supplementing the whole thing.
: 
: Now I have said it this sounds too good to not exist already... Anyone
: dumped the R-documentation onto a wiki system?
: 
: Given the capability of R to be integrated into web pages, this could be
: really really great. 
: 
: Cheers,
: Dan.

There is one at

http://fawn.unibw-hamburg.de/cgi-bin/Rwiki.pl?RwikiHome

Unfortunately, no one seems to use it.




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