On 09 Sep 2014, at 13:39, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/09/2014, 2:45 AM, Philippe Grosjean wrote: >> Yihui and Gábor, >> >> I agree with you, and I also think that using Travis CI would be very nice. >> However, there are hundreds of page on the R wiki to migrate… and syntax is >> a little bit different than Markdown. >> >> Of course, a solution would be to start again from scratch, but I think that >> those who have contributed to the R Wiki deserve more respect. Any >> suggestion, or idea about this? > > It's often not hard to write a simple parser for markup languages like > this, and then you can parse the original and rewrite the equivalent new > markup. If the markup is only a "little bit" different than Markdown, > you can ignore all the similar bits, and only worry about parsing the > different parts. (And if the parsing isn't perfect, it may be that > manual tweaking isn't so hard.) > Yes, you are right. I have looked at Pandoc, but it only supports DokuWiki in output, not in input. > Of course, you did also say something about being "very busy with exams > + Master and PhD theses", so now might not be the time… > Indeed,… unless there are volunteers over there to help? Philippe > Duncan > > >> >> Best, >> >> Philippe >> On 08 Sep 2014, at 23:12, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I second this suggestion. >>> >>> One possible complication I see is that if you would like to run the R >>> code (to display its output for example), then AFAIK you cannot simply >>> use Jekyll on Github's side, but would need some additional >>> infrastructure. >>> >>> It might be possible to use Travis (or some other) CI for it, and >>> avoid installing additional software and/or servers, but anyway, this >>> requires some care and effort. >>> >>> If you don't want to run the code, then it is very easy, apart from >>> the (one-time) migration cost. >>> >>> Best, >>> Gabor >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Yihui Xie <x...@yihui.name> wrote: >>>> I want to make a humble suggestion: migrate the wiki to Github, and >>>> build the pages using Jekyll+Markdown. That way, I think it will >>>> attract more volunteers. Simply look how many pull requests that >>>> Hadley has got for his up-coming book hosted on Github >>>> (http://adv-r.had.co.nz): https://github.com/hadley/adv-r/pulls I have >>>> had the experience of maintaining web servers and different wiki/CMS >>>> systems (including Dokuwiki -- I have even written a PHP plugin for >>>> it), and eventually I found I could not afford the time on the job of >>>> a system admin. Now I never do that again, and I just focus on >>>> maintaining the content. Let the professionals do the hosting and >>>> compilation service, and my life has become so much better (no more >>>> worries about security holes and attacks). >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Yihui >>>> -- >>>> Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> >>>> Web: http://yihui.name >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Philippe GROSJEAN >>>> <philippe.grosj...@umons.ac.be> wrote: >>>>> Uwe and all, >>>>> >>>>> I have problems with the R wiki engine. It seems that there is a >>>>> systematic attack of the R wiki site that produces an overconsumption of >>>>> the server's CPU, and consequently, my provider did shutdown the whole >>>>> SciViews.org web site. >>>>> >>>>> Now, it is a bad time for me to work on this (very busy with exams + >>>>> Master and PhD theses). I am currently looking for an expert in CMS to >>>>> look at the problem. I don't know when I will be able to solve this and >>>>> reopen the R Wiki. >>>>> >>>>> Best, >>>>> >>>>> Philippe >>>>> ..............................................<°}))><........ >>>>> ) ) ) ) ) >>>>> ( ( ( ( ( Prof. Philippe Grosjean >>>>> ) ) ) ) ) >>>>> ( ( ( ( ( Numerical Ecology of Aquatic Systems >>>>> ) ) ) ) ) Mons University, Belgium >>>>> ( ( ( ( ( >>>>> .............................................................. >>>>> >>>>> On 06 Sep 2014, at 17:28, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Rather than asking here, I'd ask Philippe Grosjean directly, hence CCIng. >>>>>> >>>>>> Best, >>>>>> Uwe Ligges >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 06.09.2014 01:17, André Z. D. A. wrote: >>>>>>> This does not answer you, but if you are looking for something that >>>>>>> existed on that wiki, it may help: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> https://web.archive.org/web/20140112055032/http://rwiki.sciviews.org/ >>>>>>> doku.php >>>>>>> >>>>>>> And that wiki doesn't look like it had a lot of activity: >>>>>>> https://web.archive.org/web/20140301000000*/http://rwiki.sciviews.org/ >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
