[Rd] Most recent R manuals [Was: Likely disruption to R-devel builds on Windows]

[Duncan Murdoch]

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.

Duncan


> Hadley
>
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Gabor Grothendieck
> <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Some easy way to find out what has changed would be desirable here.
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Simon Urbanek
> > <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Apr 30, 2010, at 4:20 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> >>
> >>> We are planning to phase in some major changes to the R build process on Windows shortly, so expect problems and temporary unavailability of binary builds of R and of packages, and if you are building from sources, check out the latest version of the R-admin manual (in the sources) for the current state.
> >>>
> >>
> >> To make sure no one has an excuse for not reading the current manuals - they are available (built nightly) at
> >>
> >> http://r.research.att.com/man/
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Simon
> >>
> >>
> >>> The planned changes are
> >>>
> >>> - to move the 32-bit builds to MinGW's recent release of gcc 4.5.0 (but with static linking of the Fortran and C++ runtimes: dynamic linking of C++ in packages crashes R).
> >>>
> >>> - to merge the 32-bit and 64-bit builds into a single installer and (for at least 98% of CRAN) a single binary for each package.
> >>>
> >>> NB: R-devel is not due for release until ca October and changes such as this are done early in the development cycle to allow plenty of time for them to be bedded down.  Please do take seriously the description as
> >>>
> >>> R version 2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-04-29 r51864)
> >>>                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> >>> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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