[R-wiki] Summary of the discussion before creation of R-sig-wiki

[Jean-Christophe BOUETTE]

2006/1/18, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>:

> I noticed your default home page for pastecs on the wiki.  Not sure if
> this is feasible but the other things that would be nice would be:
>
> - link to the vignette(s), if any.   If the package does have one or more
> vignettes this is often more useful than the help pages for someone
> trying to figure out what it is all about.
>
Hear hear. This would be _really_ nice, and I think this idea should
be then forwarded to the CRAN maintainers. Plus, it would encourage
package developers into writing vignettes, as they would be the
package's "showcase".

> - I am not sure if this is going too far but it would be handy if one
> could access the source code online to the package.  In fact, would
> it be feasible to provide svn facilities to package authors to facilitate
> group projects?
>
> - one of the problems with R packages is that there is no consistent
> way to be advised of changes.  If package authors put their change
> file on the wiki, and since the wiki has RSS, subscribers could
> be immediately advised of any changes in packages.  I don't think
> this involves any development but it requires that package authors
> use it.
>
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