>>>>> On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 07:29:27 +0000, >>>>> hadley wickham (hw) wrote:
>> A solution would be a content-management system that produced the HTML >> of the site from some other form of input. Only the output HTML would >> need to be mirrored. Care to put together such a thing, and import all >> the existing pages into it? > One way to get around the offline problem is to have a dynamic copy > somewhere and then spider and save it (eg. with wget -r). This would > (obviously) require a server somewhere - but with a post-commit svn > hook could be kept up to date easily. However, it is still difficult > to view changes to the page immediately. > What assumptions can I make about what tools are available to the > editors? Can I assume the standard unix tool chain? Yes. > What > assumptions can I make about the people doing the editing? How many > people edit the pages? For www.R-project.org all of R core have write access, but only a few actually do it ;-) > How familiar with html are they? Hard to tell, let's assume at least basic familiarity with HTML (but very good familiarity to the concept of markup laguages per se). > You say many > of the pages are manually edited, which ones aren't? Under www.r-project.org I think all are manual. > How are they > generated? on CRAN all package listings are of course auto-generated (mostly using perl scripts), the mirror list is created using R. > Are all the pages under > https://svn.r-project.org/R-project-web/trunk/ ? No, CRAN is not, as it is pulled together from various sites where maintainers of binary distributions etc. create their parts -> the CRAN master itself is "mirror" for the pits and pieces (e.g., windows R base binaries are mirrored from Duncan Murdoch, windows packages from Uwe Ligges, etc. etc.). Best, -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Friedrich Leisch Institut für Statistik Tel: (+43 1) 58801 10715 Technische Universität Wien Fax: (+43 1) 58801 10798 Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10/1071 A-1040 Wien, Austria http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
