Hello all,
We are pleased to announce the official launch of the R Wiki at
http://wiki.r-project.org. Although there are already many sources of R
documentation, this R Wiki is a complementary tool, in the sense that
"users become R documentation authors", a little bit like "users
become
developers" for R code.
====================================================================The main
sections are:
- Getting Started: dedicated to very R beginners,
- Guides: a section for books, tutorials and demos in Wiki format,
- Tips: this is a large section with many small tips&tricks, initially
based on the excellent Paul Johnson's Rtips
(http://pj.freefaculty.org/R/Rtips.html),
- Links: users can contribute links about R here,
- R Graph Gallery: an addition to discuss graphs in the Romain Fran?ois'
R Graph Gallery site (http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/index.php),
- R packages: packages authors/maintainers are free to add related
material; R package users can also contribute package-specific material
here.
- R documentation: the wiki version of all R documentation ("wikified"
Rd files), with the possibility for everybody to comment, add examples
or anything else useful. Note that there are still some little
formatting and navigation problems here, but they will be solved soon
(do not report bugs yet, please!)
- Users: sections where R users can create their own public page. It is
also the place where everybody can comment on R events, like useR!2006
(see http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=users:user-2006)
- Wiki and playground: sections to learn how to write wiki pages and to
exercise.
=======================================================================As a R
documentation reader, you could be interested by the additional
information in the R Wiki. To be informed of new items added to the R
Wiki, you have RSS feed available (see
http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=wiki:usage)
If you have something interesting to share with other R users, this is
the place to publish it. Here, you will receive the support of other
people to enhance and keep your document up-to-date with the rapidly
evolving R. Here are a couple of suggested uses:
1) If you feel there is an interesting thread on this R-Help mailing
list, summarize and illustrate it in the right subsection of 'Tips'.
That way, one could answer "Please, visit Wiki page XXXX" for further
similar questions on the mailing list. The rich-formatted presentation
of a R Wiki page is much easier to read that a mailing list thread in
the archives,
2) Contribute to the official R documentation by adding material at the
end of the wikified man pages in the "R documentation" section. Most
valuable addition will eventually flow into to official documentation in
subsequent R versions.
3) As a package author/maintainer, allow users to contribute various
material (examples, comments, tutorials, ...) by creating a Wiki page
dedicated to your package, and by adding its link in the 'URL' section
of your description file.
4) Add a link to your own R-related web site in the 'Links' section.
5) Consider to publish your R tutorial / demo / course / book in the
"Guides" section. The main advantage to publish it on the Wiki is the
possibility to get help from your readers to keep this material updated
(most of such contributed documents, including those on CRAN, are *not*
regularly updated, if published elsewhere and if you do not revise them
yourself regularly, that is, every six months!)
6) Start a page in the 'Users' section to share material under
development.
7) As a R beginner, share your experience with other beginners in the
'Getting started' section.
8) For a little bit more fun, participate, or propose a new challenge.
A challenge consists in solving a problem with optimized R code
(optimization for speed is easy to quantify, but do not forgot to
improve readability and style of your code!). We would like to advertise
R Wiki challenges from time to time on this mailing list. No prize
here,... just the satisfaction to have written the better code to solve
a given problem.
There are numerous other ways to use the R Wiki. Browse it to discover
how useful it can be for you.
There is also a mailing list dedicated to R Wiki developments:
R-SIG-WIKI (https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-wiki).
On behalf of the R Wiki creators,
Philippe Grosjean
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