On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Baptiste Auguie <baptiste.aug...@gmail.com> wrote: > One small technical issue currently limiting the deployment of true > reproducible wikis based on knitr + github-markdown is the lack of reverse > synchronisation between the rendered output (markdown), edited online, and > the original Rmd source.
The idea is that you would edit the (r)md file on github, e.g. like this: https://github.com/gaborcsardi/r-wiki-engine/edit/wiki/welcome.md You need to fork to do it, unless you are a collaborator. If you use .md file extensions instead of .rmd, then you even get a preview. (You can still treat the files as Rmd, of course when building the web site.) Then, when you save your edit (and are a collaborator), your edit will be a commit, and Travis will build the new version of the web page. If you are not a collaborator, then you need to submit a pull request, and whenever this is OK-d, the wiki and web pages will be updated. It is not exactly a real wiki, but probably as close as you can get with free services and without setting up a server. Another possibility would be using the wikis Github provides, for editing, but one would still need to build the web pages with Travis, to run the R code, so I am not sure how much that would be better. The good thing with this setup is, that you can switch to a dedicated server later, as all the build tools are open-source. Then you would get a real wiki, but the effort you need is much bigger. Gabor ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
