Navigating the Jungle of R Packages The R ecosystem has many packages in various collections, especially CRAN, Bioconductor, and GitHub. While this richness of choice speaks to the popularity and importance of R, the large number of contributed packages makes it difficult for users to find appropriate tools for their work.
A session on this subject has been approved for UseR! in Brussels. The tentative structure is three short introductory presentations, followed by discussion or planning work to improve the tools available to help users find the best R package and function for their needs. The currently proposed topics are - wrapper packages that allow diverse tools that perform similar functions to be accessed by unified calls - collaborative mechanisms to create and update Task Views - search and sort tools to find packages. At the time of writing we have tentative presenters for the topics, but welcome others. We hope these presentations at useR! 2017 will be part of a larger discussion that will contribute to an increased team effort after the conference to improve the the support for R users in these areas. John Nash, Julia Silge, Spencer Graves ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel