--- hadley wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > A new user will come to the R homepage, go to CRAN
> via the link under
> > download and from there see Packages and then be
> swamped by the huge
> > number available. Having Task Views as a link on
> the R homepage would
> > make these more visi
What about doing more to promote the R Wiki? Someone complained
to me that the R Wiki is not very useful. However, I think with the
right encouragement, it could grow like the regular Wiki, which now has
over 9 million entries in over 250 languages.
I think the R Wiki is ideal fo
> A new user will come to the R homepage, go to CRAN via the link under
> download and from there see Packages and then be swamped by the huge
> number available. Having Task Views as a link on the R homepage would
> make these more visible.
I would think that a new user would see the download hea
I'm not sure that this would make any difference to someone considering using R.
Would they know what CRAN stands for? Probably not unless they've used
CPAN or equivalent in the past.
Would they know what a 'Task View' is? Again probably not as its not
patently obvious what it is, it doesn't "cli
On Feb 6, 2008, at 6:23 AM, Neil Shephard wrote:
> Charilaos Skiadas-3 wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 5, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Monica Pisica wrote:
>>
>> But perhaps I am missing something very obvious?
>
> I thought the task views were located where they are (linked from
> the page
> that lists packages) as
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On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 03:23 -0800, Neil Shephard wrote:
>
>
> Charilaos Skiadas-3 wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 5, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Monica Pisica wrote:
> >
> > But perhaps I am missing something very obvious?
> >
> >
>
> I thought the task views were
Charilaos Skiadas-3 wrote:
>
> On Feb 5, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Monica Pisica wrote:
>
> But perhaps I am missing something very obvious?
>
>
I thought the task views were located where they are (linked from the page
that lists packages) as they summarise the available packages for the given
to
On Feb 5, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Monica Pisica wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
>
> I have to recognize that my post certainly shows my lack of skills
> in really navigating the R web page i am surprised that only
> one or two persons wrote me about the "Task Views" - it is what i
> was after - al
Hi everybody,
I have to recognize that my post certainly shows my lack of skills in really
navigating the R web page i am surprised that only one or two persons
wrote me about the "Task Views" - it is what i was after - although maybe too
general for my lazy taste - but hei - it is ther
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