> I like the fact that Task Views are written by experts but the > community aspect of crantastic is really appealing. Depending how the > aforementioned experts feel about crantastic, and how it grows and > scales, I would be very glad to see: > > - some "experts reviews" on some packages. some people considered > experts in a field are given special credit and their review stand out > from the rest. While community reviews are nice, I would rather have a > two word advice from _the_ expert than a full book from a community of > ignorants (I am voluntarily exaggerating here). Having both (good > community reviews complemented by one expert advice) would of course > be the ideal solution. An other solution (but that would be in > hadley's hands) would be to have reviews in a wiki form: review text > editable + comments.
I plan on at least implementing gravatars so that there is some way to personalise your reviews. I also wondered about having special flags for package authors or R core members. > - some tag reviews. they would essentially serve the purpose of Task > Views but would probably be more dynamic (since the number of packages > linked to a tag can change) and integrate with the rest. That's a nice idea, and having some text associated with a tag would also allow you to link to the appropriate task view. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ 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.
