[R-wiki] Top level organization

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On 2/3/06, Ben Bolker <bolker at zoo.ufl.edu> wrote:
> Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> > This is looking very good.
>
>   definitely agree.  I think we may eventually want
> to tweak the categories in Tips&tricks, but we're getting
> to the point now where we'll need to let some material
> accumulate before we can really decide on the best
> arrangement.
>
> A few comments:
> >
> > - what is the difference among Manuals, Cookbooks and Tips and Tricks.
> > Its not clear to me.
>
>    Manuals and "cookbooks" are longer and by a single or a few authors;
> tips and tricks are shorter and more collaborative (I've tried to
> clarify a little bit by adding a few short descriptions to
> "start2").  That said, I think the subdivision within "Guides"

This is still not clear..  There are THREE categories currently,
not two.  The three possible categories I can see are:

- official R manuals.  The official manuals that come with R wifieid.
- other R documents.  Contributions from users.
- snippets.  Paul Johnson's collection, etc.

Is that the distinction?  Should it be?

> (which is a fine category heading) could use a little polishing/
> explanation. [e.g. I might add a "Field-specific" category]
> Phillippe, perhaps (in your copious spare time :-) ) you could
> give slightly longer descriptions of how you envision the sections
> within "Guides" and we could work from there?
>
> > - Translations sounds like different spoken languages such as French,
> > German, etc.  Maybe this could read something like this: Guides
> > to R for users of Matlab, Octave, Stata and other packages.
>
>   you'll see this is now changed.
>   (is there a single source anywhere for non-English-language
> R resources? there is a section in other-docs.html on R-project;
> a few non-English books in doc/bib/R-books.html; a fairly hefty
> set of contributed non-English docs in other-docs.html on CRAN
> (!! different from other-docs.html on R-project !!); translation
> information at developer.r-project.org/Translation.html and ...
> TranslationTeams.html; some info in the R Installation and
> Administration manual ...)  Perhaps there should be *another*
> Translation page under "Getting started" ... ????
>
>   cheers
>     Ben
>
>
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