My goal here is not R bashing (I do still use it) but simply pointing where the pain points are so that Julia can avoid the same mistakes. R's Task views simply don't cut it for me . My single greatest source for good info on R packages is R-bloggers. Also google is very useful to search R info spread out over different sources (Task views, R-bloggers, stackoverflow, rdocumentation.org,...)
On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 10:35:26 AM UTC+1, Hans W Borchers wrote: > > You think the documentation of R packages is very spartan? ... Well, there > you go. > (I thought this mailing list strived to be super-friendly. Recently, I > felt a tendency here to diminish the work of other open source projects. > Could we stop this?) > > To find packages on CRAN, the normal procedure is not to look into the > package list, but into one or two of the Task Views encompassing your field > of interest. I'd be glad if something similar exists for Julia packages -- > those in METADATA and those not yet registered. I wanted to do this for > numerical mathematics, now waiting for version 0.4 before continuing. > > On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 10:17:01 AM UTC+1, Steven Sagaert wrote: >> >> I couldn't agree more. Personally I find CRAN to be a mess. There's no >> organization to it. You can only find something in there by googling. Also >> the documentation of R packages is very spartan... >> >> > >>> >>
