Static web pages get indexed by google. David
On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 at 09:55, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why store them? Download the source on demand, and convert it. Seems > pretty simple. > > Duncan Murdoch > > On 30/06/2023 1:19 a.m., David Hugh-Jones wrote: > > This is for the rcheology package. I run a Shiny web app which lets you > > examine changes to functions across R versions: > > > > https://hughjonesd.shinyapps.io/rcheology/ > > > > Manually storing and converting the Rd might be possible, but it would be > > burdensome in terms of data (and my time). And if the Rd spec has changed > > across versions, that’s another problem. > > > > More generally, shouldn’t there be publicly available versioned > > documentation? Python has had this for a long time. > > > > David > > > > > > On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 at 01:01, Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> > > wrote: > > > >> Sure. On your computer. Install the old version of R and let it serve > the > >> relevant docs. > >> > >> Dunno of anyone doing this historical dive online for you though. Why > >> would you want preformatted docs if you didn't have those old versions > >> installed? > >> > >> On June 29, 2023 4:23:55 PM PDT, David Hugh-Jones < > >> davidhughjo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> That’s useful to know. But is there anywhere with preformatted HTML > pages? > >>> > >>> Cheers, D > >>> > >>> On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 at 21:46, Ivan Krylov <krylov.r...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> > >>>> On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 20:22:47 +0100 > >>>> David Hugh-Jones <davidhughjo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> I'm looking for a source of online help for R base > >>>>> packages, which covers all versions (for some reasonable value of > >>>>> "all"). So e.g. the equivalent of `?lm` for R 4.1.0. > >>>> > >>>> These live in the R source tree, under src/library: > >>>> https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/ > >>>> > >>>> For the actual releases of R, you may have to go looking at the > >>>> branches inside that repository, e.g., the following command: > >>>> > >>>> svn log \ > >>>> > >>>> > >> > https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-4-1-branch/src/library/stats/man/lm.Rd > >>>> > >>>> ...should tell you the history of ?lm until the latest R-4.1-patched. > >>>> > >>>> Do the Git mirrors track these release branches? The branching model > of > >>>> Subversion [*] is different from the Git model, so perhaps not. > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Best regards, > >>>> Ivan > >>>> > >>>> [*] > https://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.using.html > >>>> > >> > >> -- > >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
