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[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Philippe Grosjean wrote:
> Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
> 
>> [...]
>>
>> I think that's enough, just think that Data Manipulation should be 
>> promoted to a section.
>>
>> Frank
> 
> 
> One has to decide and keep consistent: the current top level (level 1) 
> division of sections is between short docs (going to 'snippets' section) 
> and long docs (going to 'tutorials' section). Then, we have:
> 1) in 'snippets': 'data-manip' among others.
> 2) in 'tutorial': no equivalent because longer document are likely to 
> discuss various things... not just data manipulation. If, by chance, 
> there is a longer document that discusses *only* data manipulation, it 
> is possible to add a 'data-manip' subsection in 'tutorial' too.
> 
> If we make 'data-manip' a top level section, we break the whole logic, 
> and there is no reasons we shoudn't promote 'stats', or 'graphics' for 
> instance as top-level sections... and at the end, we rework everything 
> and end up with a totally different structure.
> 
> Just think at the structure on harddisk in a more practical way. I like 
> to separate short and long documents, because they are managed very 
> differently. Long documents have a primary author that is more 
> susceptible to update his own work, to append to it, etc... Many sort 
> documents will be one shot (typically, someone converts an interesting 
> R-Help thread, for instance). It is really more a collaboration of many 
> people, it is much more chaotic. Consequently, it requires a larger 
> number of subsections to keep a little bit of order. I think, for these 
> reasons, that we have now a pretty good structure to help manage the Wiki.
> 
> Now, it is possible to write tables of content that are more 
> task-specific, that is, promote 'data', 'stats', 'graphics' as top 
> level, and list all documents (both from 'tutorials' and 'snippets') 
> under these sections. One could also think about such table of contents 
>  as area-specific (biology, finance, etc...). That is what is 
> experimented here: 
> http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/wiki/doku.php?id=tutorials:tutorials
> 
> Does this answers to your request (without breaking the current structure)?

Philippe, you have a better understanding of this than I do, so I'm 
comfortable with your approach.  I don't recommend area-specific main 
classifications as their is much overlap between areas in the stat and 
graphical methods used (and especially in data manipulation).

Frank

> 
> Best,
> 
> Philippe Grosjean
> 
> 


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Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University