[Rd] CRAN task views: markdown? better .CSS?

[Achim Zeileis]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2013, Yihui Xie wrote:

> See this page by Barry Rowlingson:
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2012-February/063338.html
>
> Given that CRAN maintainers do not even use JavaScript, I bet CSS does
> not matter either;

You lose - see help("ctv2html", package = "ctv"). Have I won anything? ;-)

Best,
Z

> plain text is plain good.
>
> Regards,
> Yihui
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>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Michael Friendly <friendly at yorku.ca> wrote:
>> CRAN task views are useful, but they seem difficult to write and maintain
>> because the XML format is rather
>> limited (no sectioning) and the <packagelist> must be maintained manually.
>> They are also difficult to read because the generated html and .css used are
>> extremely basic, giving an
>> overly dense page.
>>
>> Are there any markdown-like tools for writing a CTV?  Is it possible to
>> apply a custom .css to a CTV?
>>
>> -Michael
>>
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>> Professor, Psychology Dept. & Chair, Quantitative Methods
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