[R-wiki] Gelman's comments about R tips vs Wiki
Gabor Grothendieck
ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Fri Apr 21 15:11:47 CEST 2006
On 4/21/06, Philippe Grosjean <phgrosjean at sciviews.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> Although I am ready to consider your point of view, I think I don't
> understand it very well.
>
> 1) Rtips is, by definition, a collection of short R code snippets. They
> are, of course, collected together in a logical way (i.e., sections with
> tips dealing with similar topics). Now, *why the hell would you like to
> have a linear presentation of these tips???* (is this what you mean by:
> "the nonlinearity of hyperlinks just adds confusion." ?) The best way to
> access these tips is by looking at keywords (the search box) and reading
> the tips related to your particular problem.
The best way is to browse, not search, since its hard to know exactly
what one wants. If its all on one page or a small number of pages then its
easy to do but if one has to search for it it makes it much harder. I
would therefore agree with the posters who indicated that the original
one page Rtips was a superior organization.
One idea is to have it on one or a small number of Wiki pages and have a program
that collects them altogether in a document that can be downloaded. That
program could be run periodically to provide a snapshot, e.g. once a week
or once a month.
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