Belatedly.... On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 09:28 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > I haven't been following closely enough to know the purpose, but > > potentially every R package is (or could be imagined to be) is > > statistical. > > Sure. But for instance I'm rather busy packaging r-surveillance > and other R tools for use in epidemiology. These will go to a > med-epidemiology package and do staticts under this topic. They > would be definitely missplaced in a science-statistics metapackage. > > The other r-cran-* packages I ITPed are just preconditions and > while they perfectly fit in the science scope I see better chances > for categorisation than just trowing them all into the statistics > bin. For instance: > > #512431: r-cran-sp -- GNU R classes and methods for spatial data > should go to science geography > > #512069: r-cran-plotrix -- GNU R package providing various plotting > functions > (it is ITPed as plotrix but should be renamed to r-cran-plotrix > if only ftpmaster whould tell me which way to fix this makes > them less work - currently they decided to stay silent at all > makes a minimum work for them :-() > I tend to put this into science-viewing because it is rather > related to creating nice diagrams than doing general statistics. > > So I just wonder whether you see better categories than just > "statistics" if you see the list of tasks at > > http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/
I'm not sure if the question is whether the statistics category itself could be split up, or whether r-cran-msm would be appropriate elsewhere. Assuming the latter question was intended, statistics seems like a good place for it. I believe it came out of epidemiology, and the uses we are making of it are epidemiological, under a rather expansive definition of the term. The statistical model in msm has many potential uses outside of medicine; it is definitely not just for epidemiology. I think what that all means is that r-cran-msm would probably also be good to add to debian-med, as well as having it in science-statistics. Ross -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
