Re: [R] Online R documentation

2010-01-14 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 16:35:25 +0100 Karl Ove Hufthammer k...@huftis.org wrote: Well, I was thinking of better integration with the help pages, e.g., having each image appear right after the code that generated it, having larger images (perhaps at approx. the default window size for graphs in

Re: [R] Online R documentation

2010-01-14 Thread Jim Lemon
On 01/14/2010 07:44 PM, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 16:35:25 +0100 Karl Ove Hufthammerk...@huftis.org wrote: Well, I was thinking of better integration with the help pages, e.g., having each image appear right after the code that generated it, having larger images (perhaps at

Re: [R] Online R documentation

2010-01-09 Thread Dieter Menne
Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: In case anybody is looking for ideas in how to improve the above site, inclusion of rendered example graphs, similar to the ones at http://www.metaresearch.de/exlib/;, would be nice. If the format you use on your site were accepted as the standard in R, this

Re: [R] Online R documentation

2010-01-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 09/01/2010 12:48 PM, Dieter Menne wrote: Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: In case anybody is looking for ideas in how to improve the above site, inclusion of rendered example graphs, similar to the ones at http://www.metaresearch.de/exlib/;, would be nice. If the format you use on your site

Re: [R] Online R documentation

2010-01-09 Thread Dieter Menne
Duncan Murdoch wrote: Including graphical output in the man pages is one of the eventual goals of the new help system. I doubt it will make it into 2.11.x, but it will probably be there in 2.12.x. This is good news; while I did not love Hadley Wickham's decision to put documentation

[R] Online R documentation

2010-01-08 Thread Hadley Wickham
Dear list, Many people seem unhappy with the new documentation server because you need to have R running to access it, and it's not immediately obvious how to bookmark references so they work long-term. One solution to this problem is to have a globally available website that provides access to

Re: [R] Online R documentation

2010-01-08 Thread Jonathan Baron
On 01/08/10 07:15, Hadley Wickham wrote: Dear list, Many people seem unhappy with the new documentation server because you need to have R running to access it, and it's not immediately obvious how to bookmark references so they work long-term. One solution to this problem is to have a

Re: [R] Online R documentation

2010-01-08 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:41:49 -0500 Jonathan Baron ba...@psych.upenn.edu wrote: Many people seem unhappy with the new documentation server because you need to have R running to access it, and it's not immediately obvious how to bookmark references so they work long-term. One solution to

Re: [R] Online R documentation

2010-01-08 Thread Hadley Wickham
Many people seem unhappy with the new documentation server because you need to have R running to access it, and it's not immediately obvious how to bookmark references so they work long-term. One solution to this problem is to have a globally available website that provides access to all

Re: [R] Online R documentation

2010-01-08 Thread Hadley Wickham
http://pledgie.com/campaigns/7707 - here you can donate as much or as little as you like to support this project.  You won't pay until the total amount has been pledged. I misread the documentation - do you actually pay right away. If I don't reach the $1000, I'll pass on the money to a good

Re: [R] Online R documentation

2010-01-08 Thread Jonathan Baron
On 01/08/10 14:56, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:41:49 -0500 Jonathan Baron ba...@psych.upenn.edu wrote: Many people seem unhappy with the new documentation server because you need to have R running to access it, and it's not immediately obvious how to bookmark

Re: [R] Online R documentation

2010-01-08 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 10:03:31 -0500 Jonathan Baron ba...@psych.upenn.edu wrote: In case anybody is looking for ideas in how to improve the above site, inclusion of rendered example graphs, similar to the ones at http://www.metaresearch.de/exlib/;, would be nice. Why should I bother when

Re: [R] Online R documentation

2010-01-08 Thread Peter Keller
Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 10:03:31 -0500 Jonathan Baron ba...@psych.upenn.edu wrote: In case anybody is looking for ideas in how to improve the above site, inclusion of rendered example graphs, similar to the ones at http://www.metaresearch.de/exlib/;, would be

Re: [R] Online R documentation

2010-01-08 Thread Jim Lemon
On 01/09/2010 12:41 AM, Jonathan Baron wrote: ... Such a website exists: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu Right near the top is a set of links to (almost) all package documentation. Duncan Murdoch helped here by including an option to build static pages in the R source. There is also a search

Re: [R] Online R documentation

2010-01-08 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Jim Lemon j...@bitwrit.com.au wrote: It's not the first time I've said it, but Jonathan Baron's search engine has always provided answers when my local R help can't. The only change I would make is to default to searching R functions only. Another interface to