I don't have a problem with this, but there are a few challenges.
- continuity: there used to be an R wiki, but it eventually disappeared
(http://wiki.r-project.org now redirects to the main www.r-project.org page)
- actual contributions: I never got much feedback or contributions to
Certainly Google can be useful, but it can also be infuriatingly time-wasting when one needs to sort out related tools
that do slightly different things. Then good, up-to-date task views are important, and wrappers such as I and some
others are trying to develop can be a way to ease the chore of
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
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
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
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
Navigating the Jungle of R Packages
The R ecosystem has many packages in various collections,
especially CRAN, Bioconductor, and GitHub. While this
richness of choice speaks to the popularity and
importance of R, the large number of contributed packages
makes it difficult for users to find
