R devel - Apr 2006 - Extending www.r-project.org features with a Wiki (PR#8744)

Full_Name: Victor Anyakin
Version: 
OS: 
Submission from: (NULL) (212.109.44.52)


This is an enhancement request,

probably, some sort of a Wiki engine could be installed on the web site, or some
other system, which would cover some basic information about various aspectes of
R.

Currently, I am trying to find some information about GUI application
development on R. A number of various projects use wiki's to provide such
information to the new or experienced users.

Try http://wiki.r-project.org  (which you might have guessed or Googled: 
it came up as the first item for me).

You might want to report to the webmaster of www.r-project.org where you 
looked for a link to this and failed to find one.   (Both the webmaster 
and the host machine have moved recently (or the machine is about to), so
various planned changes are delayed by the moves.)


On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, anyakin at users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> Full_Name: Victor Anyakin
> Version:
> OS:
> Submission from: (NULL) (212.109.44.52)
>
>
> This is an enhancement request,
>
> probably, some sort of a Wiki engine could be installed on the web site, 
> or some other system, which would cover some basic information about 
> various aspectes of R.
>
> Currently, I am trying to find some information about GUI application
> development on R. A number of various projects use wiki's to provide
such
> information to the new or experienced users.
Well, see the `Writing R Extensions' manual, the `Related Projects' link
on CRAN which links to a page on GUIs (and that links to another 
mainifestation of the same Wiki).



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>>>>> On Mon,  3 Apr 2006 17:36:35 +0200 (CEST),
>>>>> ripley  (r) wrote:
  > Try http://wiki.r-project.org  (which you might have guessed or Googled: 
  > it came up as the first item for me).

  > You might want to report to the webmaster of www.r-project.org where you 
  > looked for a link to this and failed to find one.   (Both the webmaster 
  > and the host machine have moved recently (or the machine is about to), so
  > various planned changes are delayed by the moves.)

Actually Martin had written in his email requesting the DNS entry for
the wiki that the machine hosting the wike "will be available soon"
and I was waiting for an email that this had happened.

Martin or Philippe: Is everything up and running or are you still in a
"testing phase"?

Best,
Fritz

>>>>> "FrL" == Friedrich Leisch <Friedrich.Leisch at
tuwien.ac.at>
>>>>>     on Mon, 3 Apr 2006 18:03:02 +0200 writes:
    FrL> [removed from r-bugs]
>>>>> On Mon,  3 Apr 2006 17:36:35 +0200 (CEST),
>>>>> ripley  (r) wrote:
    >> Try http://wiki.r-project.org  (which you might have guessed or
Googled:
    >> it came up as the first item for me).

    >> You might want to report to the webmaster of www.r-project.org
where you
    >> looked for a link to this and failed to find one.   (Both the
webmaster
    >> and the host machine have moved recently (or the machine is about
to), so
    >> various planned changes are delayed by the moves.)

    FrL> Actually Martin had written in his email requesting the DNS entry
for
    FrL> the wiki that the machine hosting the wike "will be available
soon"
    FrL> and I was waiting for an email that this had happened.

    FrL> Martin or Philippe: Is everything up and running or are you still in
a
    FrL> "testing phase"?

It is still in testing phase.
Philippe has a few things he wants to put in shape before
"prime-time".

Martin

On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 04:36:21PM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley
wrote:
> Try http://wiki.r-project.org  (which you might have guessed or Googled: 
> it came up as the first item for me).
> 
> You might want to report to the webmaster of www.r-project.org where you 
> looked for a link to this and failed to find one.   (Both the webmaster 
> and the host machine have moved recently (or the machine is about to), so
> various planned changes are delayed by the moves.)
  Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. Anyways, I have
  mailed the web admin of the www.r-project.org site.
> 
> On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, anyakin at users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> 
> >Full_Name: Victor Anyakin
> >Version:
> >OS:
> >Submission from: (NULL) (212.109.44.52)
> >
> >
> >This is an enhancement request,
> >
> >probably, some sort of a Wiki engine could be installed on the web
site,
> >or some other system, which would cover some basic information about 
> >various aspectes of R.
> >
> >Currently, I am trying to find some information about GUI application
> >development on R. A number of various projects use wiki's to
provide such
> >information to the new or experienced users.
> 
> Well, see the `Writing R Extensions' manual, the `Related Projects'
link
> on CRAN which links to a page on GUIs (and that links to another 
> mainifestation of the same Wiki).
  Thank you, I will try to find the information i need there.

With best regards,
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