[R-wiki] Bilan & TODOs

[paul sorenson]

Phillipe,

I really appreciate the energy and time you are giving this project.

If it would make it any easier maybe the "integration" of other wikis 
should not be a hard and fast prerequisite for "launching" the wiki.

Some wikis I have seen (well actually moinmoin) have an interwiki 
facility which is just a text file mapping that allows simple links to 
other wikis.  If the integration was holding up the launch I would be 
included to link them and progressively migrate material.

But don't let me discourage you from importing the content.

cheers

Philippe Grosjean wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My goal is still to release the R Wiki around the end of February.
> We already made many progresses. Thanks to those who contribute!
> 
> We now have a Wiki engine that begins to be tailored for R content (with 
> R code syntax highlighting, R function calltips, an embryo of context 
> sensitive help for R functions, and several other nice stuff). However, 
> there is still much work to do. Here is the list:
> 
> - Refine and test the proposed structure.
> 
> - Import pages from Detlef Steuer's R Wiki.
> 
> - Import Paul Johnson's 'Rtips' into the Wiki.
> 
> - Import James Wettenhall's 'R tcltk examples' in the Wiki.
> 
> - Import Vincent Zoonekynd's 'Statistics with R' in the Wiki.
> 
> - Adapt the Rdconv perl script to write Wiki pages from .Rd files (Wiki 
> format of the R man pages).
> 
> - Automate exportation of all .Rd pages from CRAN and Bioconductor and 
> generate a 'Rindex.conf' file that maps functions names (and methods for 
> generic functions) to corresponding man pages.
> 
> - Implement a discussion plugin to allow adding comments to these man 
> pages (this would be a much better mechanism as the INCLUDE solution 
> currently in test).
> 
> - Create a 'rhelp.php' script that, given the name of a R function, 
> extracts the corresponding man page from 'Rindex.conf' and redirects to 
> that page.
> 
> - Create a 'calltip' plugin, derived from 'acronym' for inclusion of R 
> functions calltips in the wiki pages.
> 
> - Make an R exportation format of Wiki pages (indeed, all Wiki stuff is 
> just commented out with "#", and the R code appears in a way it can be 
> directly sourced in R. This should use the scheme doku.php?do=export_R, 
> as there is already doku.php?do=export_XHTML for instance.
> 
> - Enable line numbering in code blocks (a GeSHi feature, and it eases 
> discussion of the code in the page)
> 
> - Add legend to tables/figures/code block, number them and allow for a 
> reference to them (use bookmarks)
> 
> - Add a bookmark mechanism for (bibtex) citations too (+ direct link to 
> Amazon for instance).
> 
> - Create a RWiki package containing all the R functions required to 
> manage the wiki, plus a stand-alone version of the wiki engine.
> 
> - Add sidebars with cleared table of contents for major pages.
> 
> - Make a plugin that exports one or several pages compiled into a PDF 
> manual.
> 
> - Eliminate the buggy 'text color' plugin and add a better one. Also, I 
> would like to propose plugins for better alternative syntaxes like 
> ^^...^^ for superscript in place of <sup>...</sup>, ,,...,, for 
> subscript in place of <sub>...</sub>, for instance (the alternative 
> syntax is found in other wiki engines).
> 
> - If someone think that another Wiki engine than DokuWiki is more 
> suitable for the R Wiki, I am glad to consider its proposal, but ** (1)
> he must implement all this in the alternate Wiki engine, (2) he must 
> install the prototype Wiki under the alternate engine somewhere for 
> trial, and (3) he must argument and demonstrate (including benchmark for 
> speed and load support) that the alternate Wiki engine is better.
> 
> I put this list on the Wiki at: 
> http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/wiki/doku.php?id=varia:todo.
> I would greatly appreciate help in these tasks. If you want to work on 
> one item, please, notify it in that Wiki page, so that we keep organized 
> and synchronized.
> Best,
> 
> Philippe Grosjean