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I am very interested in such a distributed documentation editing project, and have some thoughts on how to make it workable for both volunteers and core members who would need to review. I'm willing to lead or colead such a project, if someone stepping up would be a useful first step, and I'm also willing to host a wiki, although I think something like GitHub is probably the best place. I've been contemplating for a while how I can get more involved in the main R efforts, and have contributed to the doc...

...Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee at gmail.com> wrote: > > I am very interested in such a distributed documentation editing > project, and have some thoughts on how to make it workable for both > volunteers and core members who would need to review. > > I'm willing to lead or colead such a project, if someone stepping up > would be a useful first step, and I'm also willing to host a wiki, > although I think something like GitHub is probably the best place. > I've been contemplating for a while how I can get more involved in the > main R efforts, and have co...

FWIW: 1. I agree that this is an idea worth considering. Especially now that R has become so widely used among practitioners who are neither especially software literate nor interested in poring over R manuals (as I did when I first learned R). They have explicit tasks to do and just want to get to them as directly as possible. 2. A partial reply to the (fair) criticism of those who criticize

>>>> "The documentation aims to be accurate, not necessarily clear." > I notice that none of the critics > in this thread have offered improvements on what is there. This issue is as old as documented things. With software it is particularly nasty, especially when we want the software to function across many platforms. Duncan has pointed out that critics need to step