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) ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
