On 11 February 2017 at 16:41, Ben Bolker wrote: | I don't have a problem with this, but there are a few challenges. | | - continuity: there used to be an R wiki, but it eventually disappeared | (http://wiki.r-project.org now redirects to the main www.r-project.org page)
Quite right. | - actual contributions: I never got much feedback or contributions to | http://glmm.wikidot.com/glmmFAQ (which is now moved to | https://github.com/bbolker/mixedmodels-misc/blob/master/glmmFAQ.rmd ). | If individual task view maintainers wanted to post their stuff on | GitHub, it would make it easy for *some* users (those with a bit more | technical facility) to raise issues and submit pull requests ...) I fear it's not a panacea. Some folks thought that GH was a free lunch, moved early and provided some scripts. I followed a few years ago, yet still get most suggestions and contributions by email. The last PR I got was even wrong (as in: to the output .md file, rather than the source .ctv file). Still, I like having it on GH as the (autoconverted) README.md is pretty readable. [2] But let's add some empirics to this. Almost ten years, following useR! 2007 in Ames a few of us blogged about [1] the (with apologies to Patricia Hightsmith) "amazing Mr Ripley". You (!!) actually proposed a three liner to tabulate SVN logs. Well, some things never change, and the Task View package is still on SVN. So without further ado: setwd("~/svn/ctv/pkg") con <- pipe("svn log") x <- readLines(con) close(con) rx <- x[grep("^r",x)] # next three lines courtesy of Ben Bolker, circa 2007 who <- gsub(" ","",sapply(strsplit(rx,"\\|"),"[",2)) twho <- table(who) twho[order(-twho)] and that shows that Achim is doing the bulk of the work, with many maintainers updating around twice to three times a year. who azeileis edd dutangc pmair rsbivand 1356 224 118 80 69 gsimpson gruen kmm thothorn stefan7th 59 51 50 47 44 hyndman fwild hwborchers edzer templ 39 34 31 29 28 bcomeara mmaechler sorenh ugroempi bwhitcher 27 25 24 21 20 mdsumner khornik kuhn schamber789 petzoldt 15 14 14 9 5 "Matthias" jfox karlines thomasleeper kevinjaunatre 4 3 3 3 2 nikko18 gmontana 2 1 Dirk [1] One link is http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2007/08/11#ripley_commit_analysis [2] My two are at https://github.com/eddelbuettel/ctv-finance https://github.com/eddelbuettel/ctv-hpc -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
