On 11/23/07, hadley wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Above all there are lots of packages. As the software editor of the > > Journal of Statistical Software I suggested we should review R > > packages. No one has shown any enthusiasm for this suggestion, but I > > think it would help. Any volunteers? > > There are two common types of review. When reviewing a paper, you are > helping the author to make a better paper (and it's initiated by the > author). When reviewing a book, you are providing advise on whether > someone should make an expensive purchase (and it's initiated by an > third party). Reviewing an R package seems somewhat in between. How > would you deal with new version of an R package? It seems like there > is the potential for reviews to become stale very quickly. > > Another model to look at would be that of an encyclopedia, something > like the existing task views. To me, it would be of more benefit if > JSS provided support, peer review, and regular review, for these. > Entries would be more of a survey, and could provide links to the > literature, much like a chapter of MASS.
Yet another option would be to provide a site where users could post reviews and comments, much like the reviews on amazon. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.