On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 22:51:23 -0400 (EDT), "Gabor Grothendieck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >From: Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>I do understand the feeling of >>writing a nice little function, and not knowing exactly what to do >>with it: CRAN is crowded, and it does seem that an entire package >>just to support one or two simple functions is a bit of overkill. > >>Can we work out a way to publish such things? Here's a >>proposal, with some serious flaws listed below. >>Can someone fix them? > >This would be a good job for a wiki. The key advantage is it >requires minimal maintenance. I think a wiki would be fine for making the snippets available, but code maintenance is essential. That's why CRAN is more useful than Statlib: it has active maintainers who enforce documentation standards and try to make sure that if you install a CRAN package in a current version of R it will work properly. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
