From ggrothendieck at gmail.com  Fri Apr 30 16:48:34 2010
From: ggrothendieck at gmail.com (Gabor Grothendieck)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:48:34 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Most recent R manuals [Was: Likely disruption to R-devel
	builds on Windows]
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On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> On 30/04/2010 10:22 AM, hadley wickham wrote:
>>
>> Maybe Duncan could apply the same script that's being used for RNEWS
>> to the manuals? ?An RSS feed of changes to the manuals would be really
>> useful.
>>
>
> My script is very NEWS specific. ?The manuals would be harder. ?You could
> get the diffs from svn pretty easily, but displaying them would be trickier:
> ?do you display the diffs in the .texi source, or convert to HTML and
> display the diffs there, or what? ?How much context around them? ?Not
> impossible, but not trivial.
>

Just making the source diffs easily accessible would be sufficient IMHO.

For example, go to this page:
   http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?do=recent
and click on any of the eyeglass symbols.



[Rd] Most recent R manuals [Was: Likely disruption to R-devel builds on Windows]
Gabor Grothendieck