On 30/04/2010 10:48 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> On 30/04/2010 10:22 AM, hadley wickham wrote:
>>
>> Maybe Duncan could apply the same script that's being used for RNEWS
>> to the manuals? An RSS feed of changes to the manuals would be really
>> useful.
>>
>
> My script is very NEWS specific. The manuals would be harder. You could
> get the diffs from svn pretty easily, but displaying them would be trickier:
> do you display the diffs in the .texi source, or convert to HTML and
> display the diffs there, or what? How much context around them? Not
> impossible, but not trivial.
>
Just making the source diffs easily accessible would be sufficient IMHO.
That's already available, but not too pretty. E.g.
svn log -v https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/doc/manual | less
will show something like
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r51865 | ripley | 2010-04-30 00:56:00 -0400 (Fri, 30 Apr 2010) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/doc/manual/R-admin.texi
M /trunk/src/gnuwin32/CHANGES
M /trunk/src/library/tools/R/install.R
tests starssrc/library/tools/R/install.R
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r51858 | ripley | 2010-04-29 00:51:01 -0400 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/doc/manual/R-exts.texi
tweak wording
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r51854 | ripley | 2010-04-28 10:41:26 -0400 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/doc/manual/R-exts.texi
more on portability
(etc.)
and for particular details, you can do something like
svn diff -c 51858 https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/doc/manual
which will give
Index: R-exts.texi
===================================================================
--- R-exts.texi (revision 51857)
+++ R-exts.texi (revision 51858)
@@ -10813,10 +10813,10 @@
The @R{} for Windows installers have for a long time allowed the value
of @code{R_HOME} to be recorded in the Windows Registry: this is
-optional but the default. Where is it is recorded has changed over the
-years to allow for multiple versions of @R{} to be installed at once,
-and as from @R{} 2.11.0, to allow 32- and 64-bit versions of @R{} to be
-installed on the same machine.
+optional but selected by default. @emph{Where} is it is recorded has
+changed over the years to allow for multiple versions of @R{} to be
+installed at once, and as from @R{} 2.11.0, to allow 32- and 64-bit
+versions of @R{} to be installed on the same machine.
The basic Registry location is @code{Software\R-core\R}. For an
administrative install this is under @code{HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE} and on a
The non-trivial part is converting it into a nice display like what you
pointed out in the Wiki.
Duncan Murdoch
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