> There was a discussion on this a while back in which Bill Venables > said: "To me a much more urgent initiative [than rating responders on > R listserves] is some kind of user online review system for packages, > even something as simple as that used by Amazon.com has for customer > review of books. I think the need for this is rather urgent, in fact. > Most packages are very good, but I regret to say some are pretty > inefficient and others downright dangerous. You don't want to > discourage people from submitting their work to CRAN, but at the same > time you do want some mechanism that allows users to relate their > experience with it, good or bad."
And you can see my initial attempts at this at http://crantastic.org. Unfortunately I haven't had much time to work on it, and haven't had much luck recruiting helpers. 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.
