[R-wiki] R Wiki structure - level 1 & start page

[Philippe Grosjean]

OK, let's proceed step-by-step.

Do we agree with the top level structure of the wiki:

- beginners: collects together material for first time R users (and for 
curious people wanting to discover what R is). Subsections must still be 
defined.

- documentation: the wikified .Rd pages of all CRAN and Bioconductor 
packages, one subsection per package. Automatic update of the pages; 
free discussion at the end of each page.

- packages: one wiki page for each package on CRAN and Bioconductor 
(subsections CRAN / Bioconductor + one page automatically generated for 
each package). Package authors can add material there (wiki versions of 
vignettes, todo lists, further examples, links to related resources, 
etc.). This would be a kind of default package homepage, i.e., we will 
advise to use it as default URL in the package description.

- snippets: this is a huge section to contain various short pages. We 
have currently:
   + tips: tips & tricks about R (please, do not comment yet on 
subsections there). The template for this is Paul Johnson's Rtips + 
James Wettenhall R Tcltk examples. It will also contain wikified 
versions of interesting threads on R-Help
   + cookbook/examples: (I wonded if we really need to make two 
different sections here). Pages explaining from beginning to end how to 
make a given analysis in R, examples in focused on practical application 
of the method, cookbook is more "theoretical".
   + faq: shouldn't it compete with the existing FAQ files on CRAN? The 
advantage of the wiki version is that other people can easy add FAQs,... 
but is it really an advantage?
   + surprises: suggested by Tony Plate: a special location for tricky 
stuff.
   + notes: really a free section for consideration about R development, 
R use, etc.
   + easier: a collection of functions to ease R use. Could perhaps 
become a collaborative r package on CRAN in the future.

- tutorials: typically, longer documents than in snippets: introductions 
to R, tutorials, session demos, ...

- varia: anything that does not fit in the other sections. Ben proposed 
"miscellaneous" instead, but (1) it is longer and (2) a section name 
beginning with 'm' falls between the previous one in alphabetic order, 
which is less satisfactory in the index. What about the idea of a 
'challenge' section there? (see 
http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/wiki/doku.php?id=varia:0_introduction)

- weblinks: related web resources.

- Wiki: all about the Wiki itself.

There is also a rather sober proposal for the 'start' page. Please, keep 
in mind that the 'index' at left will be replaced with a sidebar 
proposing direct links to various places of interest (a little bit like 
the left part of http://wiki.tcl.tk/). Would you like to propose an 
alternate 'start' page, feel free to do so by creating 'start2', 
'start3', etc...

Best,

Philippe Grosjean