On 21-02-2012, at 13:58, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > A little while ago here we had a short discussion about Task Views - I > think ignited by someone saying 'how many times do I have to say "have > you read the Optimisation Task View?"?' and I poured some fuel on that > fire by saying "Task Views" was a stupid name. > > 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. > > Comments, thoughts, flames, etc?
Looks really nice. I think you did a very good job. Two suggestions: 1. make each image the same hight. 2. make each box the same height and width. Would be more restful to the eyes. It's a bit chaotic now. Something similar for the R home page would be very nice. Berend ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
