I was looking at the R website (r-project.org). 1) The Books page does not list several books about R, including one of my own (Nonlinear parameter optimization tools in R) nor that of Karline Soetaert on differential equations. How is the list updated? 2) The wiki seems to be dead. Is anyone in charge of it? If not, please contact me off-line. I am willing to help out (I run several Dokuwiki wikis). Best, JN
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On 20/11/2014 2:10 PM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
I was looking at the R website (r-project.org). 1) The Books page does not list several books about R, including one of my own (Nonlinear parameter optimization tools in R) nor that of Karline Soetaert on differential equations. How is the list updated? 2) The wiki seems to be dead. Is anyone in charge of it? If not, please contact me off-line. I am willing to help out (I run several Dokuwiki wikis).
Files on www.r-project.org can be edited by any member of R core. You just need to convince one of us to enter it, send us the data, and the book will eventually show up. (To do that, take a look at the Bibtex .bib file, available at http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R.bib, and put together additions in a consistent format. If it is not obvious why your book should be included, explain why.) Duncan Murdoch
This prompted me to do something I've been meaning to do for a long time, which is to try to get the R website updated in terms of visual style. It really is showing it's age and could use a facelift in my opinion. Toward than end I've mocked up a copy of cran.r-project.or using css from the python.org website. You can see the result at http://izahn.crabdance.com/~izahn/cran-new-css . This is a rough draft and needs to be cleaned up, but I though I would float this here first to see if there is any hope of getting such a change to be adopted before I spent more time on it. Feedback and comments welcome. Best, Ista On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
On 20/11/2014 2:10 PM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
I was looking at the R website (r-project.org). 1) The Books page does not list several books about R, including one of my own (Nonlinear parameter optimization tools in R) nor that of Karline Soetaert on differential equations. How is the list updated? 2) The wiki seems to be dead. Is anyone in charge of it? If not, please contact me off-line. I am willing to help out (I run several Dokuwiki wikis).
Files on www.r-project.org can be edited by any member of R core. You just need to convince one of us to enter it, send us the data, and the book will eventually show up. (To do that, take a look at the Bibtex .bib file, available at http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R.bib, and put together additions in a consistent format. If it is not obvious why your book should be included, explain why.) Duncan Murdoch
______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
On 20/11/2014, 4:35 PM, Ista Zahn wrote:
This prompted me to do something I've been meaning to do for a long time, which is to try to get the R website updated in terms of visual style. It really is showing it's age and could use a facelift in my opinion. Toward than end I've mocked up a copy of cran.r-project.or using css from the python.org website. You can see the result at http://izahn.crabdance.com/~izahn/cran-new-css . This is a rough draft and needs to be cleaned up, but I though I would float this here first to see if there is any hope of getting such a change to be adopted before I spent more time on it. Feedback and comments welcome.
You're sending that to the wrong place. The R website is www.r-project.org; cran.r-project.org is the CRAN website. You'll need to discuss that one with CRAN. Duncan Murdoch
Best, Ista On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
On 20/11/2014 2:10 PM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
I was looking at the R website (r-project.org). 1) The Books page does not list several books about R, including one of my own (Nonlinear parameter optimization tools in R) nor that of Karline Soetaert on differential equations. How is the list updated? 2) The wiki seems to be dead. Is anyone in charge of it? If not, please contact me off-line. I am willing to help out (I run several Dokuwiki wikis).
Files on www.r-project.org can be edited by any member of R core. You just need to convince one of us to enter it, send us the data, and the book will eventually show up. (To do that, take a look at the Bibtex .bib file, available at http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R.bib, and put together additions in a consistent format. If it is not obvious why your book should be included, explain why.) Duncan Murdoch
______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
On 20/11/2014, 4:35 PM, Ista Zahn wrote:
This prompted me to do something I've been meaning to do for a long time, which is to try to get the R website updated in terms of visual style. It really is showing it's age and could use a facelift in my opinion. Toward than end I've mocked up a copy of cran.r-project.or using css from the python.org website. You can see the result at http://izahn.crabdance.com/~izahn/cran-new-css . This is a rough draft and needs to be cleaned up, but I though I would float this here first to see if there is any hope of getting such a change to be adopted before I spent more time on it. Feedback and comments welcome.
You're sending that to the wrong place. The R website is www.r-project.org; cran.r-project.org is the CRAN website. You'll need to discuss that one with CRAN.
Thanks Duncan. How does one contact CRAN? I've looked but didn't manage to find contact information. In terms of the dated visual style r-project.org is in the same boat as cran.r-project.org. A mockup of r-project.org is also available at http://izahn.crabdance.com/~izahn/r-project-new-css/index.html. Again, I'd appreciate comments or feedback on the proposal to modernize the website style. Best, Ista
Duncan Murdoch
Best, Ista On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
On 20/11/2014 2:10 PM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
I was looking at the R website (r-project.org). 1) The Books page does not list several books about R, including one of my own (Nonlinear parameter optimization tools in R) nor that of Karline Soetaert on differential equations. How is the list updated? 2) The wiki seems to be dead. Is anyone in charge of it? If not, please contact me off-line. I am willing to help out (I run several Dokuwiki wikis).
Files on www.r-project.org can be edited by any member of R core. You just need to convince one of us to enter it, send us the data, and the book will eventually show up. (To do that, take a look at the Bibtex .bib file, available at http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R.bib, and put together additions in a consistent format. If it is not obvious why your book should be included, explain why.) Duncan Murdoch
______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
On 20 Nov 2014, at 23:02 , Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
On 20/11/2014, 4:35 PM, Ista Zahn wrote:
This prompted me to do something I've been meaning to do for a long time, which is to try to get the R website updated in terms of visual style. It really is showing it's age and could use a facelift in my opinion. Toward than end I've mocked up a copy of cran.r-project.or using css from the python.org website. You can see the result at http://izahn.crabdance.com/~izahn/cran-new-css . This is a rough draft and needs to be cleaned up, but I though I would float this here first to see if there is any hope of getting such a change to be adopted before I spent more time on it. Feedback and comments welcome.
You're sending that to the wrong place. The R website is www.r-project.org; cran.r-project.org is the CRAN website. You'll need to discuss that one with CRAN.
Hmm. The two websites are pretty similar in terms of their infrastructure, so I don't see much point in taking it up with CRAN specifically. The CRAN architects have a lot of other stuff on their minds so probably prefer not to take ownership of a website redesign. R-help is probably the wrong place, but I don't see a problem with discussing such matters over at r-devel. (I had a look at the facelift, and it sort of looks OK, but it is purely a style-sheet makeover, and it doesn't address the structural issues -- the use of frames, etc.) -pd
Duncan Murdoch
Best, Ista On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
On 20/11/2014 2:10 PM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
I was looking at the R website (r-project.org). 1) The Books page does not list several books about R, including one of my own (Nonlinear parameter optimization tools in R) nor that of Karline Soetaert on differential equations. How is the list updated? 2) The wiki seems to be dead. Is anyone in charge of it? If not, please contact me off-line. I am willing to help out (I run several Dokuwiki wikis).
Files on www.r-project.org can be edited by any member of R core. You just need to convince one of us to enter it, send us the data, and the book will eventually show up. (To do that, take a look at the Bibtex .bib file, available at http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R.bib, and put together additions in a consistent format. If it is not obvious why your book should be included, explain why.) Duncan Murdoch
______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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