[R-wiki] R Wiki: What do you want me to do now about tips?

[Nick Drew]

Like others, I've been busy and not made the kind of progress 
of converting Rtips to the R Wiki that I've wanted to. I had hoped to have 
section 1 (Data input/output) done by now, but there is still
1.5 - 1.7 left on that section.

I'm willing to continue to help with this. I will finish section 1 
by  the end of next week. However, I don't see me making
much progress during our warm summer months here in Oregon.

Perhaps we could generate a list of which sections of 
Rtips have been converted. Then others would know where to 
continue if they desire.

~Nick

-----Original Message-----
From: r-sig-wiki-bounces at r-project.org
[mailto:r-sig-wiki-bounces at r-project.org]On Behalf Of Ben Bolker
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 4:02 AM
To: Paul Johnson
Cc: r-sig-wiki at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-wiki] R Wiki: What do you want me to do now about tips?


   Having seen no answer thus far:

    Parts but not all of Rtips have been migrated to the R wiki
(I'd make a wild guess of about 30-50%.)  My personal preference
would be migration.  Apparently DocuWiki doesn't have a "single
page" view, but there was some discussion on the list about how
to run a script etc. to take a snapshot -- see the April archives
and Romain Francois' code at
http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:misc:alltips .
If you were willing (once the migration is complete) to run
this as a script on your server (say daily) and post the results ...

    Work on the Wiki has slowed down once again (perhaps inevitable
since so many people are busy).  I'd really like to encourage
list-readers to keep at it -- would people be willing to make
some kind of nominal deadline for at least getting the rest
of R-tips moved over/volunteer for sections?

   cheers
     Ben Bolker


Paul Johnson wrote:
> I have this gmail account but can't manage it very well.  Too many
> messages, too many lists, blah, blah...
> 
> Anyway, I just noticed several messages in this list debating the
> question of whether I should maintain Rtips or try to migrate the rest
> of the content into the R Wiki.  What is that status now?
> 
> My opinion is that some of the things in Rtips are quite seriously
> useful, especially "how to save graphs" and "use predict with
> regression" but many of the things are tidbits that I accumulated for
> one use and never used again.
> 
> I do think it is good if users can just view all the tips on a single
> page, as some readers suggested.  The one who said I should keep
> separate content on Rtips seemed to think the big drawback of the Wiki
> was the sub-compartmentlization of information into little pages, and
> there is some truth in that.  But I've seen other Wiki programs that
> could just display all content in a single www post.
> 
> I'm sorry I've not been paying attention, but now it is summer and I
> have some time while preparing to teach stats again in the fall, and
> so if you (all) tell me what needs to be done, I will do it.
>

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