On Jan 14, 2013, at 7:55 PM, Oliver Bandel wrote: > > > Am 15.01.2013 um 01:11 schrieb Brian Lee Yung Rowe <r...@muxspace.com>: > >> >> On Jan 14, 2013, at 6:32 PM, oliver <oli...@first.in-berlin.de> wrote: >> >>> BTW: I looked up the string "wish list" in some of the mentioned docs >>> (mentioned in this thread) >>> but did not found it. >>> Can you please point me to it directly? >>> Googling for "R wish list" brings me links to a producer of toys. >>> >>> Or did you mean I should ask R users for their wishes??! >>> >>> (Some R users - on this list - asked for Julia language as a speedup >>> alternative for R a while ago…) >> >> Is this what you're looking for: http://developer.r-project.org/ (see TODO >> lists) > > Ah, yes,there are TODO lists, thanks. > > This is at least some kind of thing yi was looking for. > But these are personell TODO lists. > Are their any goals for R as whole project? > > > >> >> >>> All in all it seems like no special things need to be done. >>> The FSF for example has a page where they ask for support in certain areas, >>> so, this looks rather urgent. >>> R seems not to have such urgent needs for support.... >> >> How about cleaning up some of the documentation/wiki pages? > > I'm not a friend of seperating design, coding, documentation, ... > > IMHO this should be something that is not seperated. > And I also think, that the way, R packages will be written > (code as well as documentation together) uses the same > kind of philosophy. > I was very happy about this close relation between code and > documentation,mthat is necessary to wrte a package. > > I thought the same holds true for R project as a whole. > So I maybe was wrong with this assumption. >
Actually, it does hold true - all R documentation is part of the R sources. Maybe it's a sign of a relative maturity of R that we don't have a particular "milestone"-like agenda. Typically, most things can be supplied as packages - the only reason to touch the core of R itself is if it is something that cannot be done as a package, and given R's modularity that is fortunately not very often the case. Cheers, Simon ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
