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

[David Hugh-Jones]

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David


On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 at 09:55, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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