Actually I was also thinking about the R homepage last time when Barry brought up this task view issue. The R website seems like an extreme outlier among websites of many other programming languages. It is so difficult to find another website today which still uses <frameset>, and the whole site is almost plain text. Perhaps I have been pampered by modern web designs. I wish I could do something about it, but I do not have much spare time, and I do not know if R core is really willing to change it. R is good at graphics, but the graphics in R website...
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 On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Berend Hasselman <b...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > 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 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
