Google for CRAN Task Views

On Feb 4, 2008 9:34 AM, Monica Pisica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hi everybody,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Thanks,
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> Monica
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