In PHP and also in MySQL the manual has a wiki capability so that users can add notes at the end of each page, e.g.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/functions.variable-functions.php http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/update.html That would combine documentation and wiki into one. Here it would involve copying the R help pages into the wiki in a readonly mode with the writeable wiki portion at the end of each such page. It would also be necessary to be able to update the help pages in the wiki when new versions became available. No explicit email group or coordination would be needed. It would also address the organization problem as they could be organized as they are now, i.e. into packages: base, stats, utils, ... It would require the development of a program to initially copy the help pages and to update them while keeping the notes in place whenever a new version of R came out. On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Peter Flom<peterflomconsult...@mindspring.com> wrote: > I certainly don't have anything against the WIKI, but I think that the > documentation > is where the action is, especially for newbies. It's the natural first step > when you want to learn about a function or when you get an error message you > don't understand. > > Peter > > Peter L. Flom, PhD > Statistical Consultant > www DOT peterflomconsulting DOT com > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.