On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Joshua Wiley <jwiley.ps...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Barry, is this a test/example only or would you plan on keeping > something like that on your site even if it is not adopted for cran > task views? If it is not adopted elsewhere and you are willing to > maintain it, I would like to link to it. It's really only a test, partly for fun, partly to try and kick up some of the dust on the R web pages. There's been a few comments about that, for sure. The main R web pages are becoming secondary to other community sites for information on R and packages and so on. I know it is essentially maintained by the developers primarily for the developers (as is R itself) but at some point the users will take over - as they are with the community sites springing up. However, it would be nice if www.r-project.org took you to a lively, engaging web site with twitter feeds and google +1 buttons and latest news postings. And didn't use framesets. There's also the issue of CRAN and its mirrors. Mirror technology is so last century - the way to do these things now is via CDNs - content delivery networks. You do magic redirection via http 302 responses, or metalinks. It enables better logging, better resilience. All it needs is a running instance of MirrorBrain. Or just stick .nyud.net on the end of the URL and have everything magically cached and proxied by the Coral cache network. The inertia to all this is 'well, it works okay at the moment'. But why is 'okay' okay, when 'better' is better? Anyway, how many of you played 'Top Trumps' when you were kids? My Task Views index reminded me of it, so I just spent an hour grabbing some stats and formatting them: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings/R/TaskViews/card.html The inaugural Task Views Top Trumps World Championship will be held in Nashville in June... Barry ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel