Google for CRAN Task Views On Feb 4, 2008 9:34 AM, Monica Pisica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > I know this might be very off topic and it took me quite a while to up my > courage to post this…. But I remember a thread some time ago about how we can > find the packages we need to do specific tasks in R if we don't know before > hand which ones actually do it. Now all the packages are listed > alphabetically on the web site. Since I am not very advanced in writing my > own functions I relay heavily on work already done and only when I have no > other choice I modify existing functions. Usually my modifications are only > cosmetic. > > > But sometimes I use lots of time to just read the descriptions of packages > until I decide that maybe one will do close to what I want. I wonder if there > is any way to improve how these packages are displayed on the site and help > with this decision. I wonder if the community as a whole can come up with > some broader categories such as Bayesian, spatial statistics, bootstrap, > vegetation analysis, circular statistics, robust statistics, etc., and the > authors of the package can choose 1 or 2 or how many categories they think > their package fits the most. On the web page we can have a list of those very > broad categories and within each category we can have in alpha order the > packages themselves with their description and such as it is now. So if I am > interested in vegetation analysis or environmental analysis but I never did > it before I go to that category and see which packages are more geared > towards that particular subject. For example it was by chance alone and some > GOOGLE search that I discovered that the package labdsv has anything to do > with vegetation analysis since first of course I looked at any package which > might have "veg" or "env" in the title. > > > I also realize that this might mean a lot of work, but R develops so rapidly > that soon I think it will be unmanageable to just peruse the list of packages > and read descriptions in order to choose which package to install, when you > are not familiar with all of them. I hope I didn't offend the community with > this, I would be very sorry since actually I get lots of help here and I > learnt a lot from you. I will remain forever greatful. > > > > Thanks, > > Monica > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > [[elided Hotmail spam]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >
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