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

[Philippe Grosjean]

John Marsland wrote:
> On 1/18/06, Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
> 
>>>>- 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.
> 
> 
> As far as I can see the feed.php script which presents the RSS feed in
> DokuWiki doesn't seem to be functioning. Has anyone else managed to
> make it work?
> 
> Usually an RSS button is presented on the bottom of each page next to
> the text "R Wiki powered by Driven by DokuWiki and optimized for
> Firefox Get Firefox!".

This works for me (using ThunderBird). However, I got the complete list 
of all pages on the Wiki at first connexion. Then, I got advised of 
changes for these pages, as well as new pages. However, if I delete 
corresponding entries in ThunderBird, I am not advised of changes... 
only of new pages. Does anyone knows how to cope with that?
Best,

Philippe Grosjean