Nice! (I like "A longer description will go here eventually.")
It would be cute/handy to have navigation links available for "go to
this help page in the next (previous) version of R" (if it's not a huge
pain)
On 2023-06-30 11:10 a.m., David Hugh-Jones wrote:
OK, so I took Jeff's hint and did this myself!
https://github.com/hughjonesd/r-help
Sample page for ?plot from the first version of R (at least, the first
version that is on svn):
https://hughjonesd.github.io/r-help/0.60/base/plot.html
Not everything is guaranteed to work, so please report bugs if you find any.
Cheers,
David
On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 at 13:23, David Hugh-Jones <davidhughjo...@gmail.com>
wrote:
There are plenty of places to find current docs. I think it’s fine to have
versioned ones also. I agree it would be a good idea to clearly signal
“hey, this is an old version” - indeed I’ve been bitten by that in python
before. I’m working on this now… will see what I can do.
Does anyone happen to know if it’s possible to create 00index files
without installing the relevant package? (Loading R 0.60 is challenging…)
D
On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 at 13:02, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 30/06/2023 7:57 a.m., David Hugh-Jones wrote:
Static web pages get indexed by google.
Isn't that an argument against having static pages? If I do a Google
search for "R lm" I think it's better to find the current docs rather
than dozens of obsolete versions. It's rare that someone wants to see
changes across versions, so doing that should take extra work.
Duncan Murdoch
David
On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 at 09:55, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com
<mailto: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/
<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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto:krylov.r...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 20:22:47 +0100
>>>> David Hugh-Jones <davidhughjo...@gmail.com
<mailto: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/
<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
<
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
<https://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.using.html
>>>>
>>
>> --
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>>
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