Re: [R] Wiki/revision control to management of CRAN package repository

2011-08-22 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Hello, For the R Wiki, not very realistic to think about fusing it with the other tools, due to the nature of a wiki on one hand, and the necessity to share the CRAN site across different repositories on the other hand. Also, I think that packages development is in the hand of their

Re: [R] Wiki/revision control to management of CRAN package repository

2011-08-22 Thread Ista Zahn
Hi, Much of the tagging/sorting/commenting stuff is already implemented as http://crantastic.org. Unfortunately few people have taken the time to contribute reviews. I propose that those of us who would like to bring more order to the R package universe should start by contributing reviews, tags,

[R] Wiki/revision control to management of CRAN package repository

2011-08-21 Thread Etienne Low-Décarie
I propose the following humbly, with little know how as to how to implement, and realize it may have been proposed many times. It is just something I had on my mind. Would it be possible/desirable to have the whole CRAN package repository accessible through a public wiki, forge or version