Rtips (was Re: [R] ? building a database with a the great examples

[Paul E. Johnson]

I think there is a lot of merit in this idea.  I think there is a big 
question about "authentication" and protection of Wikis from vandalism.

I've set up Wikis for other projects that I started after Rtips.  I have 
not seen your Wiki software before,  but it looks pretty nice.  I see it 
does have diff support, so old pages can be restored, yes?  But it 
doesn't authenticate users, which causes me some concern.  (I understand 
the Wiki philosophy that we should not be concerned about 
authentication, but I've never bought into it all the way).

I have a TWiki site here:

http://www.ku.edu/cgiwrap/pauljohn/twiki/view

This one I hacked up special to use authentication on some pages so that 
people have to log in before they can edit.

I had not realized before I looked at your page that Wiki 
implementations are customized for document format.  For page sections, 
your Wiki uses

= aHeading =  

but Twiki uses

---+ aHeading

That's kindof a bummer.


Detlef Steuer wrote:

>On 02-Jun-2003 Paul E. Johnson wrote:
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>>Perhaps you want to start maintaining Rtips itself!  
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>Perhaps it is time to start a wiki for R?
>For those not familiar with the idea of wikis look here:
>http://www.wikipedia.org/ (incredible wiki encyclopedia)
>http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWiki (for a description of the mechanisms of
>wikiwikis)
>
>I just did a quick hack to set one up:
>http://fawn.unibw-hamburg.de/cgi-bin/Rwiki.pl?RwikiHome
>
>Any comments welcome!
>
>If the community uses the site I promise to do what I can to keep it 
>running.
>
>Detlef
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>


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