R help - Jan 2010 - Online R documentation

Dear list,

Many people seem unhappy with the new documentation server because you
need to have R running to access it, and it's not immediately obvious
how to bookmark references so they work long-term. One solution to
this problem is to have a globally available website that provides
access to all package documentation.

I'm happy to have a go at developing this, but I need some money to
pay for hosting, for my time, and for any help I need getting it
running efficiently.  To that end, I've set up a pledgie account at
http://pledgie.com/campaigns/7707 - here you can donate as much or as
little as you like to support this project.  You won't pay until the
total amount has been pledged.

Hadley

PS.  If this fundraising initiative is successful and any R-core
member would like to take over this task, I will happily send the
money their way.

-- 
http://had.co.nz/

On 01/08/10 07:15, Hadley Wickham wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> Many people seem unhappy with the new documentation server because you
> need to have R running to access it, and it's not immediately obvious
> how to bookmark references so they work long-term. One solution to
> this problem is to have a globally available website that provides
> access to all package documentation.
Such a website exists:

http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu

Right near the top is a set of links to (almost) all package
documentation.  Duncan Murdoch helped here by including an option to
build static pages in the R source.

There is also a search engine.

(And this site also backs up several mailing lists and allows those to
be searched too, although my feeling is that r-help itself is becoming
less useful, if only because of it is impossible to maintain a high
ratio of useful information to total when the activity is so great.)

What _I_ need is a mirror site.  This is an old computer.
> I'm happy to have a go at developing this, but I need some money to
> pay for hosting, for my time, and for any help I need getting it
> running efficiently.  To that end, I've set up a pledgie account at
> http://pledgie.com/campaigns/7707 - here you can donate as much or as
> little as you like to support this project.  You won't pay until the
> total amount has been pledged.
> 
> Hadley
Hadley,

If you want to set this up, with the search capability, I can give you
extremely detailed (but probably still now quite adequate)
instructions.
> 
> PS.  If this fundraising initiative is successful and any R-core
> member would like to take over this task, I will happily send the
> money their way.
-- 
Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)

> http://pledgie.com/campaigns/7707 - here you can donate as much or as
> little as you like to support this project. ?You won't pay until the
> total amount has been pledged.
I misread the documentation - do you actually pay right away.  If I
don't reach the $1000, I'll pass on the money to a good cause (either
as a donation to R or to buying Jonathan Baron a new mirror for his
existing search service)

Hadley

-- 
http://had.co.nz/

On 09/01/2010 12:48 PM, Dieter Menne wrote:
> 
> Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
>> In case anybody is looking for ideas in how to improve the above 
>> site, inclusion of rendered example graphs, similar to the ones at 
>> "http://www.metaresearch.de/exlib/", would be nice.
>>
> 
> If the format you use on your site were  accepted as the standard in R,
this
> would be a great step forward in improving the dinosaur.
> 
> I prefer to have help locally, though, because I would like to have the
> first search restricted to the packages I have installed, to avoid being
> drowned by 2000 packages I never need.
Including graphical output in the man pages is one of the eventual goals 
of the new help system.  I doubt it will make it into 2.11.x, but it 
will probably be there in 2.12.x.

Duncan Murdoch