Re: [R-pkg-devel] UseR! Session: Navigating the jungle of R packages.

2017-02-10 Thread Jonathon Love
hi, first up let me apologise for breaking the thread. i subscribed to this list after the initial email went out. i'm not completely sure if the original post was to prompt a discussion here, but now there's a discussion, i'm jumping in! i'm a psychologist, and one of the challenges is

Re: [R-pkg-devel] ω, α, η, ² in .Rd files

2017-02-10 Thread Jonathon Love
hi duncan, On 11/2/17 01:44, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 10/02/2017 8:52 AM, Jonathon Love wrote: hi uwe, On 10/2/17 23:40, Uwe Ligges wrote: On 10.02.2017 03:19, Jonathon Love wrote: hi, i'm trying to include some greek characters in my package documentation, but am having difficulty

Re: [R-pkg-devel] UseR! Session: Navigating the jungle of R packages.

2017-02-10 Thread Jim Lemon
This discussion started me thinking about searching for a function or package, as many questions on the R help list indicate the that poster couldn't find (or hasn't searched for) what they want. I don't think I have ever used task views. If I haven't got a clue where to look for something, I use

Re: [R-pkg-devel] UseR! Session: Navigating the jungle of R packages.

2017-02-10 Thread J C Nash
We'd be more than happy to have you contribute directly. The goal is not just an information session, but to get some movement to ways to make the package collection(s) easier to use effectively. Note to selves: "effectively" is important -- we could make things easy by only recommending a few

Re: [R-pkg-devel] UseR! Session: Navigating the jungle of R packages.

2017-02-10 Thread Michael Dewey
Dear all That seems an interesting session. I am the maintainer of one of the CRAN Task Views (MetaAnalysis) and will attend unless I am successful in the draw for Wimbledon tickets. Just in case I strike lucky one question I would have raised from the floor if I were there would have been