Re: [Bioc-devel] Reference manual as HTML

2019-10-02 Thread Ludwig Geistlinger
-project.org Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Reference manual as HTML Hopefully they'll remedy these problems. They've clearly put a enormous effort on this. It sounds like a non-trivial effort to generate the tens of thousands of Bioconductor man pages in HTML and keep them in sync with whatever comes

Re: [Bioc-devel] Reference manual as HTML

2019-09-27 Thread Pages, Herve
__ > From: Bioc-devel on behalf of Pages, Herve > > Sent: 27 September 2019 00:14 > To: Martin Maechler; Martin Morgan > Cc: bioc-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Reference manual as HTML > > and let's not forget the rdrr site that provides

Re: [Bioc-devel] Reference manual as HTML

2019-09-26 Thread Laurent Gatto
Bioc-devel on behalf of Pages, Herve Sent: 27 September 2019 00:14 To: Martin Maechler; Martin Morgan Cc: bioc-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Reference manual as HTML and let's not forget the rdrr site that provides HTML versions of all R package man pages in the known world:

Re: [Bioc-devel] Reference manual as HTML

2019-09-26 Thread Pages, Herve
and let's not forget the rdrr site that provides HTML versions of all R package man pages in the known world: https://rdrr.io/bioc/DESeq2/man/DESeq.html Unfortunately the links across man pages are not clickable :-/ H. On 9/26/19 06:19, Martin Maechler wrote: >> Martin Morgan >>

Re: [Bioc-devel] Reference manual as HTML

2019-09-26 Thread Martin Maechler
> Martin Morgan > on Wed, 25 Sep 2019 21:10:24 + writes: > Our recollection is that there is no 'flag' in R CMD build to create HTML rather than PDF vignettes; without that it would be non-trivial to create html output, e.g., links across pages. (I *think* the installed

Re: [Bioc-devel] Reference manual as HTML

2019-09-26 Thread Laurent Gatto
man pages (which can easily be overwhelming for large packages) are readily available to read and search. Laurent From: Martin Morgan Sent: 25 September 2019 23:10 To: Laurent Gatto; Ludwig Geistlinger; bioc-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel

Re: [Bioc-devel] Reference manual as HTML

2019-09-25 Thread Martin Morgan
Oops, I said 'vignettes' but meant the reference manual. Html vignettes (from appropriate Rmd files) are have been available for a number of years. Martin On 9/25/19, 5:10 PM, "Martin Morgan" wrote: Our recollection is that there is no 'flag' in R CMD build to create HTML rather than

Re: [Bioc-devel] Reference manual as HTML

2019-09-25 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
, 26 September 2019 7:10 AM > To: Laurent Gatto ; Ludwig Geistlinger > ; bioc-devel@r-project.org > > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Reference manual as HTML > > Our recollection is that there is no 'flag' in R CMD build to create HTML > rather than PDF vignettes; without that

Re: [Bioc-devel] Reference manual as HTML

2019-09-25 Thread Stuart Lee
. From: Bioc-devel on behalf of Martin Morgan Sent: Thursday, 26 September 2019 7:10 AM To: Laurent Gatto ; Ludwig Geistlinger ; bioc-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Reference manual as HTML Our recollection is that there is no 'flag' in R CMD build to create HTML rather than

Re: [Bioc-devel] Reference manual as HTML

2019-09-25 Thread Martin Morgan
Our recollection is that there is no 'flag' in R CMD build to create HTML rather than PDF vignettes; without that it would be non-trivial to create html output, e.g., links across pages. (I *think* the installed package html help pages are generated on the fly...) What is your experience with

Re: [Bioc-devel] Reference manual as HTML

2019-09-25 Thread Laurent Gatto
I think this would be very useful. This is one of the reasons I create pkgdown sites for my packages: manual pages, news and html vignettes are readily available for all (including me) to browse. Best wishes, Laurent From: Bioc-devel on behalf of