R users may or may not be aware of the long history of some of the codes and algorithms used by base R and by packages. There is a small effort under way to try to document and improve understanding of these, and R Consortium has allocated some funds. We've now got a Working Group and some preliminary documents / examples, but would welcome wider participation, and an invitation to participate or even just lurk on the project follows. We especially welcome younger workers so the understanding of older codes and languages can be passed on.
John Nash INVITATION The histoRicalg project is a modest effort to try to document the older, historic algorithms that underpin R. Some other computational environments (NumPy, Octave, Gnu Scientific Library, etc.) likely have similar codes. However, such numerical tools are often written or at least presented in Fortran or other older programming languages. The R-Consortium has granted us a small amount of money for this activity. This is an invitation to join a small group of workers who hope to share information and expertise so the methods are documented and the understanding of older program code is passed on. Our activities live on Gitlab as a file repository at https://gitlab.com/nashjc/histoRicalg and a wiki at https://gitlab.com/nashjc/histoRicalg/wikis/home We have a mailing list that is based at https://lists.r-consortium.org/g/rconsortium-project-histoRicalg If you work with older algorithms or have relevant expertise, please join us, even if you plan only to lurk on the list or gitlab site and may only kibbitz from time to time. This is an activity that requires a modest input from those with a wide range of knowledge and backgrounds rather than intense effort by a very few. Yours, The histoRicalg Working Group ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
