[R] Mirror of the R manuals with a new visual style

[Jon Clayden]

Hi Barry,

On 23 October 2012 14:00, Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Jon Clayden <jon.clayden at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I've created a new mirror of the HTML versions of the main R manuals
>> at <http://r-manuals.flakery.org>. This mirror does not modify the
>> content of the manuals at all, but simply injects a new visual style
>> with the aim of making the text easier to read and navigate. It will
>> be updated after each release of R.
>>
>> The code used to generate these versions is freely available at
>> <https://github.com/jonclayden/r-manuals>.
>>
>> I hope some people find this useful. Comments are welcome.
>
>  Very elegant. Could you restyle the whole of www.r-project.org now
> please? And without using FRAMEs? :)

I'm not sure I'm quite ready to volunteer for that job, and besides,
I'm not sure whether my interference would necessarily be welcome...
:)

Avoiding the use of frames was certainly one of the drivers behind the
restyling.

>  One comment - all the code areas have visible horizontal scroll bars,
> even when not needed. Perhaps change the CSS from :
>
> overflow-x: scroll
>
> to
>
> overflow-x: auto;
>
>  so the bars only appear when needed. Maybe its different on your
> browser, but I see dead scroll bars (firefox and chrome)

Thanks, good point. I use Safari, which doesn't show the bars unless
they're needed anyway, but I should have checked in Firefox too. I'll
change it.

All the best,
Jon