On 2017-05-18 2:18 AM, TELLERIA RUIZ DE AGUIRRE, JUAN wrote:
Thank you Frederick for your comments:
They are really well justified.
I think a "forum" or bulletin board system would be a detraction from the
project and a distraction for the project leaders. Users have Stack Exchange - it's
better than any forum we could create, and it
takes care of itself.
An excellent idea would be to add in the R Project Webpage a link to RSeek, in
order to put all together. This can be done in a fast and easy way.
I too was annoyed by the state of the bug reporting system when I first started
using R, and that was even before automatic account creation was disabled. I
think the situation could be improved.
I don't think it's a huge burden to tell bug reporters to ask for an account
via the R-devel mailing list. But from what I can see the bug tracker doesn't
make it clear that this has to be done. We should at
least post a message on the main page explaining how people can create an
account. This would be less work than what Juan is suggesting, but I think
sufficient for our needs.
Yes, clarifying in the RProject webpage that accounts could be requested for
bug reporting in Bugzilla would be a great news, but it shall be really good
justified.
I think this is a terrible idea. I've only been using R for a few years and while I find
these "tidyverse" packages interesting and use them on occasion, I've also
concluded that they change too quickly to
be used in code that I want to stay working for a long time. They are largely
based on experimental concepts. Being able to change and evolve is part of the
strength of these packages. So I think putting
them in the R Base distribution would be bad for all parties.
Totally agree.
I think the R project web page looks great. It's simple and it loads quickly
and doesn't try to mesmerize people.
I like that description "mesmerize": I despise web pages with
anything that moves. I don't surf the net for entertainment: I want
information. Anything that moves is a distraction and makes it harder
for me to find what I want.
Spencer Graves
I like R's command line interface. It completes on symbols and files and I can
easily use it
with my favorite editor and run it in the terminal of my choice. I don't think
that more effort should be put into developing bloated GUIs which try to
enforce a standard way of interacting with R.
I agree, but, in my opinion, the RGUI icons shall have a little bit more
modern look. Just a bit.
Thank you,
Juan
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