On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:37:26AM -0600, Luke Tierney wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 06:48:04 -0800, you wrote: > > > > > > > >Some of us don't mind using XML because it gives us much more > > >flexibility to do interesting things with our data quite easily at the > > >expense of a little markup. > > > > Would it be easy to write a function that read the XML and produced > > something like the current NEWS format? > > > > If that's easy, then one option is to suggest that people keep the > > original source in XML, with the BUILD process doing the conversion, > > but allow people to edit the human-readable version directly if they > > prefer. > > Duncan TL's suggestion to use Using R for the mark-up structure seems > very reasonable to me. Asking package authors to write in XML > directly, or anything that would make doing that the path of least > resistance, is I think a non-starter. >
I agree completely. We need to be careful about making package writing more difficult than it already is (and for some it is very difficult). Robert > luke > > > -- > Luke Tierney > University of Iowa Phone: 319-335-3386 > Department of Statistics and Fax: 319-335-3017 > Actuarial Science > 241 Schaeffer Hall email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Iowa City, IA 52242 WWW: http://www.stat.uiowa.edu > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Robert Gentleman phone : (617) 632-5250 | | Associate Professor fax: (617) 632-2444 | | Department of Biostatistics office: M1B20 | | Harvard School of Public Health email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
