On Thu, 31 Jan 2013, Michael Friendly wrote:
On 1/31/2013 12:01 PM, Achim Zeileis wrote:
Michael:
CRAN task views are useful, but they seem difficult to write and maintain
because the XML format is rather limited (no sectioning)
What type of sectioning would you like to have? In the HTML
CRAN task views are useful, but they seem difficult to write and
maintain because the XML format is rather
limited (no sectioning) and the packagelist must be maintained manually.
They are also difficult to read because the generated html and .css used
are extremely basic, giving an
overly
See this page by Barry Rowlingson:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2012-February/063338.html
Given that CRAN maintainers do not even use JavaScript, I bet CSS does
not matter either; plain text is plain good.
Regards,
Yihui
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Yihui Xie x...@yihui.name wrote:
See this page by Barry Rowlingson:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2012-February/063338.html
Sadly that page is just the lipstick on a pig. Underneath, its still a pig.
Given that CRAN maintainers do not even use
Michael:
CRAN task views are useful, but they seem difficult to write and
maintain because the XML format is rather limited (no sectioning)
What type of sectioning would you like to have? In the HTML part, you can
use the usual structuring tools like h*, p, etc. It's not
and the
On Thu, 31 Jan 2013, Yihui Xie wrote:
See this page by Barry Rowlingson:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2012-February/063338.html
Given that CRAN maintainers do not even use JavaScript, I bet CSS does
not matter either;
You lose - see help(ctv2html, package = ctv). Have I won
On 1/31/2013 12:01 PM, Achim Zeileis wrote:
Michael:
CRAN task views are useful, but they seem difficult to write and
maintain because the XML format is rather limited (no sectioning)
What type of sectioning would you like to have? In the HTML part, you
can use the usual structuring tools
