cross-posting announcement to R-Announce, R-devel and R-package-devel. The R Consortium recently announced (https://www.r-consortium.org/news/blogs/2016/08/r-consortium-funds-three-projects-july) support of the R Documentation Task Force. The task force aims to design and implement the next generation documentation system for R. We aim to take the best from the many attempts to improve documentation and unify them into a system that will be more standard, flexible and powerful. We have the support and participation of R Core Developers. The full proposal is available on the announcement website given above. If you have expertise in documentation systems or documentation of objects or interest in building a documentation system we invite you to participate. We will be considering documentation in all common forms such as function and class documentation, but also areas such as data frames, non-standard objects, packages, and how vignettes fit into the documentation framework. If you have opinions or concerns that you would like to make sure are addressed please join. To join send an email to Andrew dot Redd at hsc dot utah dot edu, expressing your interests, skills or expertise as it relates to R documentation. Also email if you have ideas or concerns but do not wish to play and active role. Thank you, Andrew Redd
Announcing the R Documentation Task Force
2 messages · Andrew Redd
2 days later
To clarify, the developers, Duncan Murdoch, Michael Lawrence, and Martin Maechler, who are R Core Developers are participating in the project, but this should not be construed to be an endorsement from the R Core Developers as a whole, and the work of the R Documentation Task Force is not guaranteed to be included in R Core. My apologies to any who may have misinterpreted the intentions of the announcement. Sincerely, Andrew Redd
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 8:46 PM Andrew Redd <Andrew.Redd at hsc.utah.edu> wrote:
cross-posting announcement to R-Announce, R-devel and R-package-devel. The R Consortium recently announced ( https://www.r-consortium.org/news/blogs/2016/08/r-consortium-funds-three-projects-july ) support of the R Documentation Task Force. The task force aims to design and implement the next generation documentation system for R. We aim to take the best from the many attempts to improve documentation and unify them into a system that will be more standard, flexible and powerful. We have the support and participation of R Core Developers. The full proposal is available on the announcement website given above. If you have expertise in documentation systems or documentation of objects or interest in building a documentation system we invite you to participate. We will be considering documentation in all common forms such as function and class documentation, but also areas such as data frames, non-standard objects, packages, and how vignettes fit into the documentation framework. If you have opinions or concerns that you would like to make sure are addressed please join. To join send an email to Andrew dot Redd at hsc dot utah dot edu, expressing your interests, skills or expertise as it relates to R documentation. Also email if you have ideas or concerns but do not wish to play and active role. Thank you, Andrew Redd
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