I am coming a bit late to the thread, so apologies if I am missing something. I believe that it would be more useful to index functions to particular keywords than a package itself.
I think we may have over-looked Prof. Harrell's suggestion (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-gui/2004-November/000410.html) during the "Hidden costs of GPL software" thread. His site (http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/s/finder/finder.html) is quite useful. If this was turned into a wiki or something similar, perhaps it could have much more benefit. Regards, Adai On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 14:15, Eric Lecoutre wrote: > At 15:06 24/11/2004, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > >Eric Lecoutre <lecoutre <at> stat.ucl.ac.be> writes: > > > >: 6. Final point has already been discussed in the past. It is about misc > >: packages and pieces of code. I propose the creation of 5 packages: > >: - miscGraphics (keywords: misc, Graphics) > >: - miscStatistics (keywords: misc, Statistics) > >: - miscMathematics (keywords: misc, Mathematics) > >: - miscBasics (keywords: misc, Basics) > >: - miscProgramming (keywords: misc, Programming) > > > >Rather than preset the categories perhaps evolving them would > >be better, just starting out with a single Misc package and then > >decomposing it into multiple packages as the categories become > >clear. > > > Those categories are taken from KEYWORDS (master entries). I guess it > wouldn't be difficult to still have substancial entries for those packages, > if some misc package maintainer would make the job to break their package > into pieces. BTW, I have to admit this choice is not easy to make for > several reasons, the main one beeing to keep the ability to modify one's > own contributions. > For those packages, a collaborative plattform such as SourceForge and so > on, with Sync-ability, could be a good choice. > > Eric > > > Eric Lecoutre > UCL / Institut de Statistique > Voie du Roman Pays, 20 > 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve > Belgium > > tel: (+32)(0)10473050 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/ISpersonnel/lecoutre > > If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers. -Edward > Tufte > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
