On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 13:51:24 -0500 Jonathan Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 01/07/06 12:25, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > So my $0.02 would be to a) go for it, if possible but b) make it > > visible, and closely tied to R Core / CRAN / R News / .... Which > > poses the chicken/egg problem of people running out of spare time to > > setup, admin, monitor, hand-hold the wiki, its database, watch out > > for spammers, etc. Volunteers to do this, and maybe help Jon Baron > > on a first run using TWiki? > > Great. I agree. But there are now at least 3 proposals floating > around. Mine was to base the wiki on (I think) the individual > help pages, each file in the help or html subdirectory of each > package would be a wiki page. Since there are about 17000 of > these at last count - oh, my, could that really be true? - this > must be automated. It should be fairly easy, but I just haven't > done it yet. What this would amount to is an extended help > system. > > Then there is the decision about what happens with updates. I'm > beginning to think that there is just no other way to handle this > than to INCLUDE the latest version of each help file in the wicki > page, have the comments come AFTER it, and just don't worry about > it if the comments become out of date. Eventually, someone will > edit them if it is important. Here I strongly disagree. Nothing is worse than searching for help and stumble upon wrong hintsight. It is better to find nothing, than to _think_ to have found an answer only to find it not working. I was just bitten by outdated docu after updating qemu. Did cost some time and frustration. Think of the beginner left with useless, or worse, wrong advise. Detlef > > But I'm not at all sure this is the best way to go. Given that > all the functions in each package are related, it might be better > to have one wiki page per package. In this case, there is less > difference between my proposal and the other existing wikis. > > It is possible that too many wikis is bad. On the other hand, it > is possible that too few is bad. May be true. Have a nice sunday, Detlef > > > Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish > > something. > > -- Thomas A. > > Edison > > I love this. > > Jon > -- > Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania > Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron > > ______________________________________________ > [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 -- "Keinen Gedanken zweimal denken, außer er ist schön." Unbekannte Quelle ______________________________________________ [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
