On 08/06/2013 12:12 AM, Tomáš Greif wrote:
My original idea was to start translating Rd files directly. It looks
easy to just skip all the tags and translate rest (but maybe I'm wrong
on this). I'm sure we can figure out better ways to do this later.
...
That was essentially the way I did the translation. I was thinking more
of a distributed solution, with either package maintainers or foreign
language R groups (or both) creating packages with non-English help
files that could be downloaded from non-CRAN sites. The Babel problem
has flung many an open source project into a tar pit of ever-expanding
dimensions.
I liked the following:
However, getting all the R documentation translated is probably easier
than getting everyone to speak english - we started trying to do that
in the 18th century and look how that turned out...
Barry
but maybe getting most of the people to speak English all of the time
(pace Abraham Lincoln) remains the optimal solution.
Jim
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