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

[Gabor Grothendieck]

If its not feasible to somehow merge Task Views and the wiki
there could at least be a section with one heading per subject
area which should be top level.

time series
econometrics
fisheries
finance
etc.

On 2/2/06, Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Philippe Grosjean wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Is it at all possible to use the CRAN Task Views to "view" packages and
> functionalities. I feel that Task Views are a potentially useful way of
> reflecting emerging clustering, and do - even for beginners - give a view
> of discipline or thematic groupings of functionality? Beginners in Finance
> arguably can benefit from a different view than say Ecology?
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Roger
>
> >
> > - 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
> >
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