[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5452?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=16852262#comment-16852262 ]
Neal Richardson commented on ARROW-5452: ---------------------------------------- If only .Rmd was the documentation format that R used. R man pages are .Rd format, which is a flavor of TeX. I can't imagine that it's worth our trouble to reimplement everything that `pkgdown` does to parse those and crossreference across those and various other (mostly markdown) pages. Plus, the pkgdown site style is familiar to R users, just as sphinx is for Python users. It's better for the intended audience of the docs. [https://arrow.apache.org/docs/js/] and [https://arrow.apache.org/docs/java/] already exist, so it doesn't seem unreasonable to add R to that. We can (and should) have links to those other languages in the sphinx /docs/ ToC sidebar. > [R] Add documentation website (pkgdown) > --------------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-5452 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5452 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Neal Richardson > Assignee: Neal Richardson > Priority: Major > Fix For: 0.14.0 > > > pkgdown ([https://pkgdown.r-lib.org/]) is the standard for R package > documentation websites. Build this for arrow and deploy it at > https://arrow.apache.org/docs/r. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)