On 4/18/06, Philippe Grosjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Bolker wrote: > > a question for the list: > > > > comparing the format of > > > > 1. http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:data-vectors > > > > (all subtopics within the page as level-2 headers, index at top > > points to anchors within the page) > > > > and > > > > 2. http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:data-matrices > > > > (subtopics as links to separate pages) > > > > which do people prefer/think is better? I think I prefer #1 > > (it's closer to Rtips, broader rather than deeper, and facilitates > > browsing), but I'd like suggestions before I go and reformat > > the rest of the tips:data sections (matrices, frames, io, lists, > > manip, and misc have subpages now). > > > > Unless someone wants to write a script that will do the conversion? > > It would probably only take a few lines of Perl ... > > > > Ben Bolker > > > Wiki pages are rather free. So, something in between those two is > acceptable. However, > http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:data-vectors is *not* a > good idea! Tips should remain short pages. Here you tend to write long > pages, and noly one page per Wiki namespace in the tips section. This > brings an additional overload to the server which has to deliver all the > page everytime, even if people are looking for a specific section in > that page. So, > http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:data-matrices > (subtopics as links to separate pages) is the appropriate format. > > Note also that I have added a new plugin to *automatically* generate the > index of a given Wiki namespace. This means that you don't need to > manually edit tips:data-matrices everytime you add a tip there (i.e., a > *separate* page)! I will show you an example, but not before next > week... Too much urgent work this week. > Best, >
I generally prefer the long pages since its a pain to have navigate all the short pages and one can use ctrl-F to find what they are looking for. _______________________________________________ R-sig-wiki mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-wiki
