Must be a big "posterior"... I especially love this pun. Regards, Yihui
On Tuesday, February 21, 2012, Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson <at> lancaster.ac.uk> writes: > >> Anyway, I did say that Task Views were rather brilliant, but were let >> down by their hidden position on the R web sites (tucked away as the >> third element of a sub-menu of a CRAN mirror site linked to by the >> CRAN link from the Download menu on the main R home page). The index >> page is rather plain, so I designed a more engaging one. The result of >> my effort is now here: >> >> http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings/R/TaskViews/ >> >> Having done that, I even considered that something like that could >> replace the R Homepage. Giving new visitors an idea of the vast range >> of techniques and application areas available in R would seem to be >> better than the current graphic which has been there since perhaps >> 2004. > > I love it. The only problem I have with it is that it's a little > harder to grasp the whole list since the titles of the individual task > views are now so spread out. > > What is it about Bayesian statistics and elephants? (Clark's book > on Bayesian models for ecology also has an elephant.) Is it the > elephant in the room no-one will talk about? Or is it the "give > me four parameters and I'll draw you an elephant" thing? > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
