[R-wiki] tips formats

[Ben Bolker]

    OK, if it's a technical issue rather than a stylistic one
(too hard on the server), I will work on reformatting tips:data-vectors
(and a "surprises" page that I started to do in the same format).

   thanks
     Ben

Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> On 4/18/06, Philippe Grosjean <phgrosjean at sciviews.org> wrote:
> 
>>Ben Bolker wrote:
>>
>>>   a question for the list:
>>>
>>>   comparing the format of
>>>
>>>1. http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:data-vectors
>>>
>>>(all subtopics within the page as level-2 headers, index at top
>>>points to anchors within the page)
>>>
>>>and
>>>
>>>2. http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:data-matrices
>>>
>>>(subtopics as links to separate pages)
>>>
>>>   which do people prefer/think is better? I think I prefer #1
>>>(it's closer to Rtips, broader rather than deeper, and facilitates
>>>browsing), but I'd like suggestions before I go and reformat
>>>the rest of the tips:data sections (matrices, frames, io, lists,
>>>manip, and misc have subpages now).
>>>
>>>   Unless someone wants to write a script that will do the conversion?
>>>It would probably only take a few lines of Perl ...
>>>
>>>   Ben Bolker
>>
>>
>>Wiki pages are rather free. So, something in between those two is
>>acceptable. However,
>>http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:data-vectors is *not* a
>>good idea! Tips should remain short pages. Here you tend to write long
>>pages, and noly one page per Wiki namespace in the tips section. This
>>brings an additional overload to the server which has to deliver all the
>>page everytime, even if people are looking for a specific section in
>>that page. So,
>>http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:data-matrices
>>(subtopics as links to separate pages) is the appropriate format.
>>
>>Note also that I have added a new plugin to *automatically* generate the
>>index of a given Wiki namespace. This means that you don't need to
>>manually edit tips:data-matrices everytime you add a tip there (i.e., a
>>*separate* page)! I will show you an example, but not before next
>>week... Too much urgent work this week.
>>Best,
>>
> 
> 
> I generally prefer the long pages since its a pain to have navigate
> all the short pages and one can use ctrl-F to find what they are
> looking for.


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