Like many, I am sure, I get R-Help in digest form. Its easy enough to browse the subject lines, but then if an entry interests you, you have to embark on this tedious search or scroll to find it. It would be great to have a "clickable" digest, where the topics list is a set of pointers, and clicking on a topic takes you to that entry. I can think of at least one way to do this via web pages, but I bet those with more web skills than me can come up with an elegant solution. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Trevor Hastie hastie@stanford.edu Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University Phone: (650) 725-2231 (Statistics) Fax: (650) 725-8977 (650) 498-5233 (Biostatistics) Fax: (650) 725-6951 URL: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~hastie address: room 104, Department of Statistics, Sequoia Hall 390 Serra Mall, Stanford University, CA 94305-4065 -------------------------------------------------------------------- [[alternative text/enriched version deleted]]
On 09-Aug-05 Trevor Hastie wrote:> Like many, I am sure, I get R-Help in digest form. Its easy enough > to browse the subject lines, but then if an entry interests you, > you have to embark on this tedious search or scroll to find it. > It would be great to have a "clickable" digest, where the topics list > is a set of pointers, and clicking on a topic takes you to that entry. > I can think of at least one way to do this via web pages, but I bet > those with more web skills than me can come up with an elegant > solution.If that were implemented, I would suggest that it should be a third category of format, "html-digest", say. Otherwise, people (though I'm not one of them) who choose to receive R-help in digest form but use text-based mail software will find their screens cluttered with HTML tags. It's a good idea, but I think the existing digest format should also be kept as it is. Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 09-Aug-05 Time: 18:48:42 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
> Like many, I am sure, I get R-Help in digest form. Its easy enough to > browse the > subject lines, but then if an entry interests you, you have to embark > on this tedious search or scroll to find it. > It would be great to have a "clickable" digest, where the topics list > is a set of pointers, and clicking on a topic > takes you to that entry. I can think of at least one way to do this via > web pages, but I bet those with > more web skills than me can come up with an elegant solution.I sincerely hope you don't mean that you wish HTML enabled content in the actual emails coming through the mailing list. People who send HTML in email text should be taken out back and shot :) You could always look through the archives at: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/ And simply sort by date or whatever else suits your fancy.
Trevor - There's a wonderful feature in gnus (the emacs information (including mail) reader), that "bursts" digests into subparts for reading (and hence, easy access). I think there are other similar tools as well for other mail readers. best, -tony On 8/9/05, Trevor Hastie <hastie at stanford.edu> wrote:> Like many, I am sure, I get R-Help in digest form. Its easy enough to > browse the > subject lines, but then if an entry interests you, you have to embark > on this tedious search or scroll to find it. > It would be great to have a "clickable" digest, where the topics list > is a set of pointers, and clicking on a topic > takes you to that entry. I can think of at least one way to do this via > web pages, but I bet those with > more web skills than me can come up with an elegant solution. > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Trevor Hastie hastie at stanford.edu > Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University > Phone: (650) 725-2231 (Statistics) Fax: (650) 725-8977 > (650) 498-5233 (Biostatistics) Fax: (650) 725-6951 > URL: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~hastie > address: room 104, Department of Statistics, Sequoia Hall > 390 Serra Mall, Stanford University, CA 94305-4065 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > [[alternative text/enriched version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >-- best, -tony "Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can easily roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05). A.J. Rossini blindglobe at gmail.com
>>>>> "Trevor" == Trevor Hastie <hastie at stanford.edu> >>>>> on Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:27:32 -0700 writes:Trevor> Like many, I am sure, I get R-Help in digest Trevor> form. Its easy enough to browse the subject lines, Trevor> but then if an entry interests you, you have to Trevor> embark on this tedious search or scroll to find it. Trevor> It would be great to have a "clickable" digest, Trevor> where the topics list is a set of pointers, and Trevor> clicking on a topic takes you to that entry. I can Trevor> think of at least one way to do this via web pages, Trevor> but I bet those with more web skills than me can Trevor> come up with an elegant solution. But that has been an option in mailman, the software behind our mailing lists --- for ages --- I'm astonished none of the funny responses would mention this, and I'm further astonished I have to explain such simple things to such smart people ;-) Please open the URL at the end of every message https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help go to the bottom and "log in" -- clicking the [Unsubscribe or Edit Options] field. You need your mailing list password sooner or later. The one you get sent every 1st of the month; or you can have it sent to you again. Then you are in a page entitled "R-help Membership Configuration for <foo>@<bar" Scroll down to the section "Your R-help Subscription" where the 3rd entry is entitled Get MIME or Plain Text Digests? and now you want MIME. I hope this helps, Martin
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Hi Trevor, please excuse my late reply; your e-mail was sent when I started travelling (to Seattle and the DSC and Bioconductor workshops there). Also, I hope you don't mind if I follow this up on R-help, since there, the thread started and this does related to it.>>>>> "Trevor" == Trevor Hastie <hastie at stanford.edu> >>>>> on Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:06:08 -0700 writes:Trevor> Dear Martin I may still be doing something wrong. Trevor> Here is what I see now in Mozilla Firefox (attached Trevor> jpeg file of screen dump) isn't that "Thunderbird" ? "Firefox" the web browser, "Thunderbird" the mail client? Trevor> This is still not the convenient layout I was Trevor> envisaging. Ideally one would have the usual list Trevor> of contributions, with authors, and they would be Trevor> clickable I've now looked at your screen shot and agree this is really not satisfactory. {In my good old Emacs VM mail reader things are different: all is nice with a virtual mail folder of individual messages} Hmm, I've checked : The MIME type used for the whole digest is 'Content-Type: multipart/digest' and then 'Content-Type: message/rfc822' for each individual message. Since there *are* mail clients that nicely support these MIME types, I wonder why thunderbird does not. I'd say this is clearly a deficiency in thunderbird; or is it something you could optionally configure to it? What are other readers' experiences with mailman mailing lists in digest mode -- using "MIME" type delivery? Regards, Martin