Oh, I forgot to tell that svMisc package already implements since a long
time a full-text search in R Wiki from within R, e.g.,
install.packages("svMisc")
library("svMisc")
helpSearchWeb("RSiteSearch", "wiki")
?helpSearchWeb
There are parts here that could be merged probably in the RSiteSearch
package discussed earlier in this mailing list.
Best,
Philippe Grosjean
Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
In PHP and also in MySQL the manual has a wiki capability
so that users can add notes at the end of each page, e.g.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/functions.variable-functions.php
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/update.html
That would combine documentation and wiki into one. Here it would
involve copying the R help pages into the wiki in a readonly mode with the
writeable wiki portion at the end of each such page. It would also be
necessary to be able to update the help pages in the wiki when new versions
became available.
No explicit email group or coordination would be needed. It would also address
the organization problem as they could be organized as they are now, i.e. into
packages: base, stats, utils, ...
It would require the development of a program to initially copy the help pages
and to update them while keeping the notes in place whenever a new version
of R came out.
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Peter
Flom<peterflomconsult...@mindspring.com> wrote:
I certainly don't have anything against the WIKI, but I think that the
documentation
is where the action is, especially for newbies. It's the natural first step
when you want to learn about a function or when you get an error message you
don't understand.
Peter
Peter L. Flom, PhD
Statistical Consultant
www DOT peterflomconsulting DOT com
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