[ww-users] R off-wiki

[Lee W. <wor...@gm...>]

Imagine you are working on R programs in a project in a wiki.  You start up
R on your own workstation, load in the data and functions from the files on
the wiki, and try out R commands until you're satisfied, then go back to the
wiki and update it.  Much easier than editing, saving to the web browser,
previewing, reloading the .make.log file, right?  Also easier than exporting
the whole project, unpacking the tar file, and loading from there.  It may
be doable without any changes to WorkingWiki.

I think it would just require writing an R library that can load data files,
.RData files, and maybe .R files from wiki locations into your R session.
It might have functions like attachToWWProject(wikiname, projectname),
loadFromWW(rdatafilename).

If anyone feels like writing something like that, I'd be happy to consult
with them.  I don't have experience writing R libraries, and I won't have
time to do something like this anytime soon.
LW