Romain Francois wrote: > > What about > - place somewhere a div called 'Focus on a package' where we could have > a short presentation of a package, etc ... or for a CRAN task view (to > do that, php would be great, but we can do I don't know perl scripts to > generate static html pages) > - a direct link to download R, which will redirect to the appropriate > CRAN thanks to cookies > - Propose the Table of Contents of the last volume of R news. > - reduce the ratio (size of the head page graphic) / (information > directly accesible) > - move search, task views, and documentation from cran to www >
Now maybe my original assessment that a CMS wasn't worth investing in needs a rethink. Suppose www.r-project.org was rebuilt with Plone: http://plone.org/ You'd get: * An easy-to-edit set of accessible web pages * A thorough search of site content * News and Events objects * Replace CRAN with Plone Software Center: http://plone.org/products/plonesoftwarecenter - as used to display plone Products here: http://plone.org/products * Use Plone Help Center for documentation, as used here: http://plone.org/documentation * Use poi to replace the R-bugs system: http://plone.org/products/poi - although plone itself has moved to using 'trac' http://www.edgewall.com/trac/ Of course, it requires time, hosting, and enthusiasm.... I'm currently lacking all three. Barry ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
