This comes up from time to time; at the moment I can't find the thread in the mailing list archives. The advantage, obviously, would be to make all this accumulated code available to the R community. The disadvantage would be that such a heap of code would be highly heterogeneous -- some stuff would work, some wouldn't, some would work originally but obsolesce -- and the good stuff would get lost anyway. On the other hand, you're right that it would be hard to find the functions one wanted in a set of "miscmisc" packages (but would it be any harder than finding it in a random heap of contributed code?) I guess I don't have a good answer; I would encourage you to bundle your stuff up into a little library, even if you don't think it's enough. (I am equally guilty of laziness: I've written a variety of packages for landscape generation, genetic stock analysis, 3D graphics, maximum likelihood ... but while I have put them up on my own web page at http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker/R, I've never submitted them to CRAN for most of the reasons you cite.)
http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/R/statsRus.html is a good collection of (tiny) bits and pieces, but it depends on a single person for updating (and for keeping it coherent ...) Ben Bolker On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Eric Lecoutre wrote: > > Hi R community, > > These days, I am writing some functions to work with 2-ways frequency > tables ; you know all this tuff about measures of association: Chisq and > derived (phi, cramer's v), tau b, tau c, somer's d and so on. > > So I consider all those functions could be gathered in a single R file, as > they are coherent and dealing with the same problem / objective (analysis > of crosstables). Nervertheless, I wouldn't say there is here enough stuff > to juystify the creation of a library. First, there is here few material, > second it is not enough to cover the practical problem; which should be the > goal of a library. > > In fact, I have also lot of others splitted files with R code suitable for > different purposes. And I could easily imagine I am not the only one among > R programmers... And at the end, this is pity that I can't share this code > (and BTW that I can't benefit of other's one!) > > I though the solution was to deliver my own (eric)misc library, you know... > But then we would rapidly be overcome by all miscmisc from world, and it > would be difficult to find specific functions with all that libraries. > > To me, a possible solution would be to have a page on CRAN listing such R > files. Then, everyone would be able to upload R files with a short comment > (what does the functions do). I am thinking about something less "strict" > than libraries: for that, no reason to test the code (programmer's > responsability). Then, maybe sometimes there would be enough pieces of code > on a statistical subject to justify the creation of a library (still with > the mind: a library is a collection of tools designed to help on a precise > situation). > > While I'm at it, it would also be nice to have a shared page on > screenshots/graphics. For sure, I really enjoy to use R to produce > wonderfull graphics. Not only would it be nice sometimes to show them, but > it would also be the occasion to demonstrate R possibilities for newcomers > (think on color graphics including mathematics). R would never have enough > publicity! > > Eric > > > __________________________________________________ > > Eric Lecoutre Informaticien/Statisticien > Institut de Statistique UCL > > (+32) (0)10 47 30 50 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/ISpersonnel/lecoutre > __________________________________________________ > Le vrai danger, ce n'est pas quand les ordinateurs > penseront comme des hommes, c'est quand les hommes > penseront comme des ordinateurs. Sydney Harris > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > -- 318 Carr Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zoology Department, University of Florida http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker Box 118525 (ph) 352-392-5697 Gainesville, FL 32611-8525 (fax) 352-392-3704 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
