From phgrosjean at sciviews.org  Sun Jun 18 15:19:38 2006
From: phgrosjean at sciviews.org (Philippe Grosjean)
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 15:19:38 +0200
Subject: [Rd] R Wiki: how useful for developers?
Message-ID: <449552EA.6070707@sciviews.org>

Hello all R developers,

I just send the official annoucement of the R Wiki at 
http://wiki.r-project.org (was also officially annouced at useR!2006). I 
would like to insist here on the aspects of the Wiki that could be of 
particular interest for you, as R developer:

1) The 'R documentation' section is dedicated to hold the latest 
"wikified" version of all Rd files (base, recommended, as well as all 
packages on CRAN and Bioconductor). Users can append exemple, discuss 
points that are unclear for them, etc. at the end of these Wiki pages. 
So, looking from time to time to these page is a good way to get 
feedback from the users to improve your Rd files. (note that, currently 
only base packages are on the Wiki; Also, several bugs in the Rd -> Wiki 
conversion still need to be fixed, but that will be done as soon as 
possible and all other Rd files will be published then).

2) The 'R packages' section of the Wiki is an ideal place to allow 
developers *and* users of R packages to add useful material like further 
examples, tutorials, tips, etc. related to your packages. Although this 
section is still in development, here is how you can create a page for 
your own package and advertise it:

- After login to the R Wiki site, type this in the search box (top right 
of any R Wiki page):

packages:[cran|bioconductor|others]:[pckgname]

with: [cran|bioconductor|others] depending on where you package is 
located, and [pckgname] being the name of your package (note that the R 
Wiki uses only lowercase letters for page names, so that your package 
name will be automatically tranformed into lowercase in the URL of your 
page)

- An error message indicate that the page does not exist yet. Click on 
'Create this page' at the top left.

- Start editing your page and click 'Save'.

- Copy and paste the URL of your page in the URL section of your 
description file.

Best,

Philippe Grosjean
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[Rd] R Wiki: how useful for developers?
Philippe Grosjean