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

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Jean-Christophe BOUETTE wrote:
> 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.

In some ways it would be better if the wiki could be the vignette.  It 
would be nice to share the burden of adding examples with other users.

Frank

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