[R-pkg-devel] Public URLs for help for versions of base packages
On 30/06/2023 7:57 a.m., David Hugh-Jones wrote:
Static web pages get indexed by google.
Isn't that an argument against having static pages? If I do a Google search for "R lm" I think it's better to find the current docs rather than dozens of obsolete versions. It's rare that someone wants to see changes across versions, so doing that should take extra work. Duncan Murdoch
David
On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 at 09:55, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
<mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>> wrote:
Why store them?? Download the source on demand, and convert it.? Seems
pretty simple.
Duncan Murdoch
On 30/06/2023 1:19 a.m., David Hugh-Jones wrote:
> This is for the rcheology package. I run a Shiny web app which
lets you
> examine changes to functions across R versions:
>
> https://hughjonesd.shinyapps.io/rcheology/
>
> Manually storing and converting the Rd might be possible, but it
would be
> burdensome in terms of data (and my time). And if the Rd spec has
changed
> across versions, that?s another problem.
>
> More generally, shouldn?t there be publicly available versioned
> documentation? Python has had this for a long time.
>
> David
>
>
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 at 01:01, Jeff Newmiller
<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us <mailto:jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>>
> wrote:
>
>> Sure. On your computer. Install the old version of R and let it
serve the
>> relevant docs.
>>
>> Dunno of anyone doing this historical dive online for you
though. Why
>> would you want preformatted docs if you didn't have those old
versions
>> installed?
>>
>> On June 29, 2023 4:23:55 PM PDT, David Hugh-Jones <
>> davidhughjones at gmail.com <mailto:davidhughjones at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> That?s useful to know. But is there anywhere with preformatted
HTML pages?
>>>
>>> Cheers, D
>>>
>>> On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 at 21:46, Ivan Krylov
<krylov.r00t at gmail.com <mailto:krylov.r00t at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 20:22:47 +0100
>>>> David Hugh-Jones <davidhughjones at gmail.com
<mailto:davidhughjones at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm looking for a source of online help for R base
>>>>> packages, which covers all versions (for some reasonable value of
>>>>> "all"). So e.g. the equivalent of `?lm` for R 4.1.0.
>>>>
>>>> These live in the R source tree, under src/library:
>>>> https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/
>>>>
>>>> For the actual releases of R, you may have to go looking at the
>>>> branches inside that repository, e.g., the following command:
>>>>
>>>> svn log \
>>>>
>>>>
>>
https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-4-1-branch/src/library/stats/man/lm.Rd <https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-4-1-branch/src/library/stats/man/lm.Rd>
>>>>
>>>> ...should tell you the history of ?lm until the latest
R-4.1-patched.
>>>>
>>>> Do the Git mirrors track these release branches? The branching
model of
>>>> Subversion [*] is different from the Git model, so perhaps not.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Ivan
>>>>
>>>> [*]
https://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.using.html <https://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.using.html>
>>>>
>>
>> --
>> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
>>
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