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SourceForge.net will consider the inclusion of a programming
language within the Trove system when we host at least 5
projects based on that language. Please advise: Do you know
of 5 projects hosted on SourceForge.net based on this language?
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Gretl, RPad and RMetrics, plus Ernesto's FLR and fsap make five.
Then you can also add nlmeODE:
http://nlmeode.sourceforge.net/
Gretl Allin Cottrell, USA
Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library
Gretl is hosted on SourceForge.
http://gretl.sourceforge.net/
Gretl is not written in R, but interfaces to R.
http://gretl.sourceforge.net/gretl_and_R.html
"gretl ... is designed as a very user-friendly econometrics package. While
it is also reasonably sophisticated, it lacks some of the specialized
statistical methods that a working econometrician might desire.As a way
around this limitation, gretl offers an interface to the comprehensive
free-software statistical package, GNU R."
Both RPAd and RMetrics are open-source projects using (and acknowledging
using) R.
As far as I know, neither is listed on SourceForge.
RPad EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute), USA
http://www.Rpad.org/Rpad/
"Rpad is an interactive, web-based analysis program. Rpad pages are
interactive workbook-type sheets based on R, an open-source implementation
of the S language. Rpad is an analysis package, a web-page designer, and a
gui designer all wrapped in one. Rpad makes it easy to develop powerful
data analysis applications that can be shared with others (most likely on
an intranet). The user doesn't have to install anything--everything's done
through a browser."
RMetrics Diethelm Wuertz, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
http://www.itp.phys.ethz.ch/econophysics/R/
"Rmetrics is the premier open source solution for financial market
analysis and valuation of financial instruments. With hundreds of
functions build on modern and powerful methods Rmetrics combines
explorative data analysis and statistical modeling with object oriented
rapid prototyping. Rmetrics is embedded in R,"
My impression is that many projects "on SourceForge" have links to home
pages hosted on other sites -- so I suppose
if the project authors are willing -- they could be cross listed on
SourceForge.
Gretl, RPad and RMetrics, plus Ernesto's FLR and fsap make five.
On the other hand, SourceForge's criteria for inclusion appears to be very
arbitrary.
Objective criteria that would be more relevant to R include:
- R has several active mailing lists (archived for verification)
- The R Project is archived on CRAN (Comprehensive R Archive Network)
which has more than 20 mirrors on 6 continents:
Africa
Asia
Australia
Europe
North America
South America
- More than a dozen books have been published with either "R" or "S"
mentioned in the title ("R" is an open-source implementation of "S"). For
example, "Introductory Statistics with R" is available from major
booksellers including Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com and even
Wal-mart.com!
Subjective criteria for inclusion on SourceForge
- "R" is an implementation of "S" a language developed at Bell Labs -- the
organization that developed the C programming language and the Unix
operating system. Open source implementations of C include the GNU
Complier Collection (GCC) and open source implementations of Unix include
GNU Linux. So why not include, the open source implementation of S, GNU R?
- R is respected in the statistical community. There are awards and
articles that could be cited. A personal story -- in the early 1990s I
attended an American Statistical Association meeting in San Francisco. I
saw then that the topnotch statisticians, people like Frank Harrell --
whose short course on Regression I attended, were maxing out SAS and
switching to S. I heard about StatLib at Carnegie Mellon and contributed
code. At the time, the institution I was working for was committed to SAS
and SPSS and would not have been open to spending more on S. But, years
latter I was delighted to learn that there was an open source
implementation S, R and that it was available at StatLib, which now is a
mirror for the worldwide CRAN mirror sites.
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 09:09, Witold Eryk Wolski wrote:
Hi R-Users and Developers,
Several months ago I made a request on Sourceforge to add the R/S -
programming language to the _Trove_ categorization. ("The Trove is a
means to convey basic metainformation about your project.")
Today I got the following response of one of the sourceforge admins.
<SNIP>
SourceForge.net will consider the inclusion of a programming
language within the Trove system when we host at least 5
projects based on that language. Please advise: Do you know
of 5 projects hosted on SourceForge.net based on this language?
<SNIP>
If anyone of you knew about R-packages, or projects using the R/S
programming language, which are hosted on sourceforge, please reply to
this thread. I hope that your answers will enable me to give more then 5
examples of R projects hosted on Sourceforge.
Yours Eryk
Jim Callahan
Management, Budget & Accounting
City of Orlando
(407) 246-3039 office
(407) 234-3744 cell phone
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