Open llrs opened 4 months ago
This has been added as an issue for R Dev Day @ PLUS, that will take place the day after useR! (Friday July 12 2024).
Thanks for commenting Heather. I didn't expect this was a candidate for the R dev day and I was about to ask an email to several people involved.
For completeness, after opening this issue and talking a bit with several key people: I created a repository at https://github.com/r-devel/repos for coordinating with Bioconductor (and any other repository) about several process related to the currently supported R repositories. I'll continue conversations about the HTML refman page in the other repo.
Currently CRAN serves the manual pages from all packages on the form of
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/<pkg>/<pkg>.pdf
. Additionally there are html versions of served fromhttps://search.r-project.org/CRAN/refmans/<pkg>/html/00Index.html
. For example, https://search.r-project.org/CRAN/refmans/BaseSet/html/00Index.htmlDesired
CRAN wants to serve a manual page for each package in html format using the function pkg2HTML (introduced in R-4.4).
This would make help pages more accessible to all users and searchable from the internet (SEO, SEM, ...).
Problems
Current problems for this change are:
<li><p>
tags causes some spacing problems)Proposal
The working group may wish to consider helping to take this work forward.