Re: [R] A long digression on packages

2005-06-07 Thread Sander Oom
Oooops, already missed one: 5. search of the R mailing lists: http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/ ad5. never used this before. Think Google also does an excellent job finding these if you start search with "R". Sander. Sander Oom wrote: Maybe some of this confusion about search opportu

RE: [R] A long digression on packages

2005-06-06 Thread Berton Gunter
$.02 (no more): 1. R and its packages are big and diverse, growing rapidly. No simple phrase to describe this, but perhaps " the most important contribution to data analysis and statistical practice since Fisher" comes close. 2. Ergo lots of diverse information, with little or no way to classify

RE: [R] A long digression on packages

2005-06-06 Thread Liaw, Andy
> From: Chris Evans > > On 6 Jun 2005 at 7:02, Jonathan Baron wrote: > > > I haven't followed this thread, but the web interface may exist. > > (Perhaps "help.search()" does something that Namazu doesn't do, > > but I don't think so.) See my .sig below. > > > > This is where you get if you clic

Re: [R] A long digression on packages

2005-06-06 Thread Sander Oom
Maybe some of this confusion about search opportunities and pros/cons could be avoided if the search page on CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org/search.html) would be extended to cover all main search tools! Quickly scanning the discussion, I found these: 1- simply Google: some tips and tricks hav

Re: [R] A long digression on packages

2005-06-06 Thread Chris Evans
On 6 Jun 2005 at 8:38, Jonathan Baron wrote: > So use my search engine and unclick all the options except for > "functions"? Do I need a different term? No, I'm being an idiot (as I suspected!) and had looked through your particular search interface and jumped to the big CRAN one. Replying thi

Re: [R] A long digression on packages

2005-06-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 6/6/2005 6:46 AM, Chris Evans wrote: On 5 Jun 2005 at 18:44, Jari Oksanen wrote: There are diverse opinions about netiquette. One of the most basic, in my opinion, is this: if someone posts starts a discussion in a certain forum, you shall not divert it to another forum where it may be hidde

Re: [R] A long digression on packages

2005-06-06 Thread Chris Evans
On 6 Jun 2005 at 7:02, Jonathan Baron wrote: > I haven't followed this thread, but the web interface may exist. > (Perhaps "help.search()" does something that Namazu doesn't do, > but I don't think so.) See my .sig below. > > This is where you get if you click on "Search" in the R home > page. N

Re: [R] A long digression on packages

2005-06-06 Thread Jonathan Baron
I haven't followed this thread, but the web interface may exist. (Perhaps "help.search()" does something that Namazu doesn't do, but I don't think so.) See my .sig below. This is where you get if you click on "Search" in the R home page. On 06/06/05 11:46, Chris Evans wrote: On 5 Jun 2005 at 18

Re: [R] A long digression on packages

2005-06-06 Thread Chris Evans
On 5 Jun 2005 at 18:44, Jari Oksanen wrote: > There are diverse opinions about netiquette. One of the most basic, in > my opinion, is this: if someone posts starts a discussion in a certain > forum, you shall not divert it to another forum where it may be hidden > by most readers, perhaps even by

Re: [R] A long digression on packages

2005-06-05 Thread Jari Oksanen
On 5 Jun 2005, at 16:47, Duncan Murdoch wrote: Thanks for posting this; I think you raise good points, but they're more appropriate for R-devel, so I've posted my reply there. There are diverse opinions about netiquette. One of the most basic, in my opinion, is this: if someone posts starts

Re: [R] A long digression on packages

2005-06-05 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Thanks for posting this; I think you raise good points, but they're more appropriate for R-devel, so I've posted my reply there. Duncan Murdoch __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the po

Re: [R] A long digression on packages

2005-06-05 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 6/5/05, Jim Lemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are now about 500 packages on CRAN. Some are focused, covering a > particular area well, easy for the prospective user to discover their > potential usefulness, while others are less so. CRAN Task Views http://cran.r-project.org/src/con

[R] A long digression on packages

2005-06-05 Thread Jim Lemon
Hello again, First, thanks for the help that got the latest plotrix package finished. I had been planning to write something about packages since Scott Waichler offered the gantt.chart function. Then Ben Bolker (who helped me to write the axis.break function) asked if I would be willing to in