Here is a list of things to do and to test on the R Wiki and R Wiki engine

If you want to contribute, please, append your name to the item(s) you are working on, and comment it according to your progression. Many thanks to all contributors!

• Import pages from Detlef Steuer’s R Wiki (see http://fawn.unibw-hamburg.de/cgi-bin/Rwiki.pl?RwikiHome).

• Import Paul Johnson’s ‘Rtips’ into the Wiki (http://www.ku.edu/~pauljohn/R/Rtips.html).
  • As of June 18th completed section 1 of R tips (Data Input/Output). Will continue to update other sections as time permits. If others want to help, please choose a different section of Rtips and post here the section you are working on and a status report. Thanks! Nick Drew
  • [BMB] did the parts of section 3 (matrices & vectors) that belong in “matrices and arrays”; starting on the parts that belong in “vectors”
  • see R tips conversion status

• Import James Wettenhall’s ‘R tcltk examples’ in the Wiki (http://bioinf.wehi.edu.au/~wettenhall/RTclTkExamples/).

• Import Vincent Zoonekynd’s ‘Statistics with R’ in the Wiki (http://zoonek2.free.fr/UNIX/48_R/all.html). [PhG] Only the beginning is imported

• Adapt the Rdconv perl script to write Wiki pages from .Rd files (Wiki format of the R man pages).[PhG] almost finished!

• Automate exportation of all .Rd pages from CRAN and Bioconductor and generate file that maps functions names (and methods for generic functions) to corresponding man pages.

• Implement a discussion plugin to allow adding comments to these man pages (this would be a much better mechanism as the INCLUDE solution currently in test test_include).

• Install the ‘by-page’ email notification service of DokuWiki.

• Submit patches (developed for this site) to DokuWiki and GeSHi authors.

• Make an R exportation format of Wiki pages (indeed, all Wiki stuff is just commented out with “#”, and the R code appears in a way it can be directly sourced in R. This should use the scheme doku.php?do=export_R, as there is already doku.php?do=export_XHTML for instance.

• There is a DokuWiki-edition feature for OpenOffice writer out there. Add R-specific features to it + make a page telling how one can edit R Wiki pages in OpenOffice Writer.

• A R Wiki syntax highlighter for Tinn-R

• Derive a jEdit Wiki editor plugin (there is a MoinMoin plugin => start from it)

• Add a bookmark mechanism for (bibtex) citations too (+ direct link to Amazon for instance).

• Create a RWiki package containing all the R functions required to manage the wiki, plus a stand-alone version of the wiki engine.

• Make a plugin that exports one or several pages compiled into a PDF manual.

• Refine the edition toolbar (include more features)

• Modify indexmenu to return the title of the pages instead of their names in tips (suggested by BB)

• Add a blog engine to all blogging about R (suggested by Dirk Eddelbuettel)

• Make more informative calltips for R functions (suggested by Frank Harrell)

• Check the xhtml syntax of generated pages (plugins like bibtex create code that do not follows exactly the xhtml rules).

• Get rid of most of client-side javascript, so that browsers with disabled javascript can still read and navigate in the R Wiki. The two main features to change are: (1) replace the javascript version of ASCIIMathML with a php version on the server, and (2) expand folded areas by default (with folding done at page loading using javascript). so, if javascript is disabled, all regions are unfolded and people can still click on the links even if they cannot fold/unfold these regions.

— Philippe Grosjean 2006/01/27, revised 2006/06/19