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

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On 1/19/06, John Marsland <john.marsland at mac.com> 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!".
>

I have been using it successfully with SharpReader under
Windows XP.  Its feed is:

   http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/wiki/feed.php