Le mardi 15 novembre 2016 à 02:02 -0800, Jérôme Collet a écrit : > Hi all, > > I am new to Julia, I used to use R. And using R packages, the main > difficulty for me is the choice of a package for a given task. Most > of the time, there are many packages solving the same problem, so we > have to choose. > A first possibility could be the TaskViews, but it is easy to see > that around a third of all packages is listed in a TaskView, so being > listed does not say anything about quality. There already exists a similar tool for Julia: http://svaksha.github.io/Julia.jl/
I guess we could advertize it more. Regards > Thanks to Rstudio, it is possible to know how many times a given > package was downloaded. It is an indication about package quality. > But this indication is difficult to obtain, and not very reliable. > I heard that in Matlab, it is easy to know the experience about a > package, or even a function of a package, compared to other similar > functions in another packages. > So, are there any plans to collect, store and share the experience on > packages?
