>>>>> "Romain" == Romain Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:33:06 +0100 writes:
Romain> Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>> It occurred to me that we could have an optional file
>> called TESTIMONIALS that comes with each package which
>> could be a list of short testimonials from users
>> indicating success with that package and possibly a few
>> details of the successful application, e.g. it was used
>> to analyse xyz data.
>>
>> Users would be encouraged to send in testimonials.
>>
>> This would give new users an immediate idea of what
>> others have done with any given package.
>>
>> It would be up to the authors and maintainer to solicit
>> the testimonials. The author and maintainer could list
>> their own applications in that file too if they wished.
>>
>> Another possibility is to place the testimonials in the
>> vignette if there is one.
>>
Romain> Hi,
Romain> Could that kind of things go to the wiki
Romain> http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=packages:packages
Yes, I think it could, and even think it should.
For the time being the 'packages' section of the RWiki (URL
above) should be used much more in my view.
Here is ``my wish'' :
Ideally, for all CRAN (or Bioconductor or Omegahat) package
that's not there already,
there would be either
1) a nightly CRON job that built a web page template automatically,
just from analyzing <CRAN>/src/packages/ content
2) a "button" that user could press which creates a web page
template for package
These templates would already have a few pieces of information,
including a link to CRAN / BioC / ... for the package source
(and reference PDF).
--> and now the topic has really diverted and should probably be
continued on the R-SIG-Wiki mailing list.
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
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