Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote:
I am coming a bit late to the thread, so apologies if I am missing
something. I believe that it would be more useful to index functions to
particular keywords than a package itself.
I think we may have over-looked Prof. Harrell's suggestion (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-gui/2004-November/000410.html)
during the "Hidden costs of GPL software" thread.
His site (http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/s/finder/finder.html) is quite useful. If this was turned into a wiki or something similar, perhaps it could have much more benefit.
Regards, Adai
I'd rather support John Fox idea to encourage the use of \concept{} entries much stronger.
Uwe Ligges
On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 14:15, Eric Lecoutre wrote:
At 15:06 24/11/2004, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
Eric Lecoutre <lecoutre <at> stat.ucl.ac.be> writes:
: 6. Final point has already been discussed in the past. It is about misc : packages and pieces of code. I propose the creation of 5 packages: : - miscGraphics (keywords: misc, Graphics) : - miscStatistics (keywords: misc, Statistics) : - miscMathematics (keywords: misc, Mathematics) : - miscBasics (keywords: misc, Basics) : - miscProgramming (keywords: misc, Programming)
Rather than preset the categories perhaps evolving them would be better, just starting out with a single Misc package and then decomposing it into multiple packages as the categories become clear.
Those categories are taken from KEYWORDS (master entries). I guess it wouldn't be difficult to still have substancial entries for those packages, if some misc package maintainer would make the job to break their package into pieces. BTW, I have to admit this choice is not easy to make for several reasons, the main one beeing to keep the ability to modify one's own contributions.
For those packages, a collaborative plattform such as SourceForge and so on, with Sync-ability, could be a good choice.
Eric
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