[R] R website

[peter dalgaard]

On 20 Nov 2014, at 23:02 , Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 20/11/2014, 4:35 PM, Ista Zahn wrote:
>> This prompted me to do something I've been meaning to do for a long
>> time, which is to try to get the R website updated in terms of visual
>> style. It really is showing it's age and could use a facelift in my
>> opinion. Toward than end I've mocked up a copy of cran.r-project.or
>> using css from the python.org website. You can see the result at
>> http://izahn.crabdance.com/~izahn/cran-new-css . This is a rough draft
>> and needs to be cleaned up, but I though I would float this here first
>> to see if there is any hope of getting such a change to be adopted
>> before I spent more time on it. Feedback and comments welcome.
> 
> You're sending that to the wrong place.  The R website is
> www.r-project.org; cran.r-project.org is the CRAN website.  You'll need
> to discuss that one with CRAN.
> 

Hmm. The two websites are pretty similar in terms of their infrastructure, so I don't see much point in taking it up with CRAN specifically. The CRAN architects have a lot of other stuff on their minds so probably prefer not to take ownership of a website redesign. 

R-help is probably the wrong place, but I don't see a problem with discussing such matters over at r-devel. (I had a look at the facelift, and it sort of looks OK, but it is purely a style-sheet makeover, and it doesn't address the structural issues -- the use of frames, etc.)  

-pd

> Duncan Murdoch
>> 
>> Best,
>> Ista
>> 
>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Duncan Murdoch
>> <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 20/11/2014 2:10 PM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I was looking at the R website (r-project.org).
>>>> 
>>>> 1) The Books page does not list several books about R, including one of
>>>> my own (Nonlinear parameter optimization tools in R) nor that of Karline
>>>> Soetaert on differential equations. How is the list updated?
>>>> 
>>>> 2) The wiki seems to be dead. Is anyone in charge of it? If not, please
>>>> contact me off-line. I am willing to help out (I run several Dokuwiki
>>>> wikis).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Files on www.r-project.org can be edited by any member of R core. You just
>>> need to convince one of us to enter it, send us the data, and the book will
>>> eventually show up.  (To do that, take a look at the Bibtex .bib file,
>>> available at http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R.bib, and put together
>>> additions in a consistent format.  If it is not obvious why your book should
>>> be included, explain why.)
>>> 
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>> 
>>> 
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