Message-ID: <q2z971536df1004300748ucf5c4fc0t7d5b6d66c972a651@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2010-04-30T14:48:34Z
From: Gabor Grothendieck
Subject: Most recent R manuals [Was: Likely disruption to R-devel builds on Windows]
In-Reply-To: <4BDAEBA0.1010903@stats.uwo.ca>
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.