Re: [Rd] R 2.10 and help

2010-05-27 Thread Jamie Love
Thanks for the info, I'm happy to use the new httpd server that serves the help files - that'd definitely help. My difficulty with this approach is that I'm not sure how to get the URL - Say for example I've done help.start(), then I do: help(plot) it will redirect my web browser to the plot

Re: [Rd] R 2.10 and help

2010-05-27 Thread Romain Francois
Le 27/05/10 09:48, Jamie Love a écrit : Thanks for the info, I'm happy to use the new httpd server that serves the help files - that'd definitely help. My difficulty with this approach is that I'm not sure how to get the URL - Say for example I've done help.start(), then I do: help(plot)

Re: [Rd] R 2.10 and help

2010-05-27 Thread Jamie Love
Thanks to Romain, this is perfect - On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Romain Francois romain.franc...@dbmail.com wrote: Le 27/05/10 09:48, Jamie Love a écrit : Thanks for the info, I'm happy to use the new httpd server that serves the help files - that'd definitely help. My difficulty with

Re: [Rd] SVN vs DVCS

2010-05-27 Thread Terry Therneau
One small technical note: Simon said That (non-linear history) is IMHO the biggest drawback of DVCS because that means there is no way to link a particular build to the source status and you cannot use globally valid build numbers. In mercurial (Hg) a particular snapshot can be labeled with a

Re: [Rd] SVN vs DVCS

2010-05-27 Thread Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik
In mercurial (Hg) a particular snapshot can be labeled with a tag, and then referred to by that name in the future. Bazaar can tag revisions as well: http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/Tag Git too: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-tag.html Sincerely Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik

Re: [Rd] SVN vs DVCS

2010-05-27 Thread Roger Peng
I think the main advantage of a DVCS is that it allows many many people to make changes to a project and to integrate those changes in a non-insane way. Given that R as a very restricted list of people who actually make changes to the source, it doesn't seem that something like git or Hg would