Hi Matthew,
Sorry that I've read your email a bit too late and answered to the
thread before.
You're right about Crantastic, it's a really good thing, and I actually
voted for the packages I really use (even though a little). It was
suggested to me by a r-helper some time ago.
I was also surprised to see that there are some 19 users (and it
increased recently, didn't it?) of "plyr" (which is from the replies
obviously one of the most used packages). Looks like few people vote on
Crantastic and I find it sad.
When I'm now looking for a package I go directly there and can find all
the basic information on all packages, though sometimes the general aim
of the package is not clearly stated.
Of course, the real potential would be revealed only if all users vote
for, comment on and write reviews on packages.
Crantastic rules! Thanks for pointing it out!
Ivan
PS: I'm gonna write some comments on a package or 2!
Le 3/3/2010 18:48, Matthew Dowle a écrit :
Dieter,
One way to check if a package is active, is by looking on r-forge. If you
are referring to data.table you would have found it is actually very active
at the moment and is far from abandoned.
What you may be referring to is a warning, not an error, with v1.2 on
R2.10+. That was fixed many moons ago. The r-forge version is where its at.
Rather than commenting in public about a warning on a package, and making a
conclusion about its abandonment, and doing this without copying the
maintainer, perhaps you could have contacted the maintainer to let him know
you had found a problem. That would have been a more community spirited
action to take. Doing that at the time you found out would have been
helpful too rather than saving it up for now. Or you can always check the
svn logs yourself, as the r-forge guys even made that trivial to do.
All,
Can we please now stop this thread ? The crantastic people worked hard to
provide a better solution. If the community refuses to use crantastic,
thats up to the community, but to start now filling up r-help with votes on
packages when so much effort was put in to a much much better solution ages
ago? Its as quick to put your votes into crantastic as it is to write to
r-help. What your problem, folks, with crantastic? The second reply
mentioned crantastic but you all chose to ignore it, it seems. If you want
to vote, use crantastic. If you don't want to vote, don't vote. But using
r-help to vote ?! The better solution is right there:
http://crantastic.org/
Matthew
"Dieter Menne"<dieter.me...@menne-biomed.de> wrote in message
news:1267626882999-1576618.p...@n4.nabble.com...
Rob Forler wrote:
And data.table because it does aggregation about 50x times faster than
plyr
(which I used to use a lot).
This is correct, from the error message its spits out one has to conclude
that is was abandoned at R-version 2.4.x
Dieter
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