Hi Spencer, Thanks for the pointers. > > I just wanted to share with you that we made a website over the weekend > > that allows "instant search" of the R documentation on CRAN, see: > > www.Rdocumentation.org. It's a first version, so any > > feedback/comments/criticism most welcome. > > > Interesting. Are you aware of the following: > * help.start()>>> Of course, but I think checking R > documentation online instead of with the built-in R help function could > provide some extra benefits. First, you are capable of searching through the > latest version of all R packages, even those that are not installed on your > device. This makes it not only a help tool, but also a tool for discovery > (the fact that you can see search results while typing in the search box, > increases the "discovery element" further). Second, I added the discussion > system Disqus. For every function and package, Disqus allows users to ask > questions, add extra examples to the documentation, etc. This could become > an added value (conditionally on the fact that people use of it of course > :-)> * The R Wiki (the fourth item under "Documentation" on the > > left at "r-project.org"). Might you want to consider merging your > "rdocumentation.org" with this? >>> That would be an interesting option, but I guess that's not up to me to >>> decide ;-). > - NOTE: The R Wiki unfortunately has not gotten the > attention and development I believe it deserves. I'm not sure why this > is. The standard Wikipedia gets many contributors. One difference I > noticed is that to edit this, one needs to login. That's not true for > Wikimedia projects. Beyond that, with stardard Mediawiki markup > language can intimidate some people. Fortunately, difficulties in using > the Mediawiki softaware will soon be reduced. One of the primary > priorities of the software development team at the Wikimedia Foundation > is modifying the Mediawiki software to include a beta version of a > visual (WYSIWYG) editor. I saw a demo of a beta version of this a month > ago. It's already available for limited use, but I don't think it's > quite ready yet. I think it might be wise to check for it later this year. > > > * The "sos" package with its vignette for searching CRAN > packages and getting the result sorted to place first the package with > the most matches.>>> I was unaware of the sos package, looks very nice, thank > you for sharing! > Hope this helps. > Spencer > > > Best regards, > > > > Jonathan > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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