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

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 the

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

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. Not quite:

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

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 this

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

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 click on Search in

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

[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

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

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

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