[R-pkg-devel] Public URLs for help for versions of base packages

[Duncan Murdoch]

Why store them?  Download the source on demand, and convert it.  Seems 
pretty simple.

Duncan Murdoch

On 30/06/2023 1:19 a.m., David Hugh-Jones wrote:
> This is for the rcheology package. I run a Shiny web app which lets you
> examine changes to functions across R versions:
> 
> https://hughjonesd.shinyapps.io/rcheology/
> 
> Manually storing and converting the Rd might be possible, but it would be
> burdensome in terms of data (and my time). And if the Rd spec has changed
> across versions, that’s another problem.
> 
> More generally, shouldn’t there be publicly available versioned
> documentation? Python has had this for a long time.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 at 01:01, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us>
> wrote:
> 
>> Sure. On your computer. Install the old version of R and let it serve the
>> relevant docs.
>>
>> Dunno of anyone doing this historical dive online for you though. Why
>> would you want preformatted docs if you didn't have those old versions
>> installed?
>>
>> On June 29, 2023 4:23:55 PM PDT, David Hugh-Jones <
>> davidhughjones using gmail.com> wrote:
>>> That’s useful to know. But is there anywhere with preformatted HTML pages?
>>>
>>> Cheers, D
>>>
>>> On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 at 21:46, Ivan Krylov <krylov.r00t using gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 20:22:47 +0100
>>>> David Hugh-Jones <davidhughjones using gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm looking for a source of online help for R base
>>>>> packages, which covers all versions (for some reasonable value of
>>>>> "all"). So e.g. the equivalent of `?lm` for R 4.1.0.
>>>>
>>>> These live in the R source tree, under src/library:
>>>> https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/
>>>>
>>>> For the actual releases of R, you may have to go looking at the
>>>> branches inside that repository, e.g., the following command:
>>>>
>>>> svn log \
>>>>
>>>>
>> https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-4-1-branch/src/library/stats/man/lm.Rd
>>>>
>>>> ...should tell you the history of ?lm until the latest R-4.1-patched.
>>>>
>>>> Do the Git mirrors track these release branches? The branching model of
>>>> Subversion [*] is different from the Git model, so perhaps not.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Ivan
>>>>
>>>> [*] https://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.using.html
>>>>
>>
>> --
>> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
>>
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