Dear developeRs, in the last month I mentioned in several discussions on R-help that Kurt and I were working on tools for "CRAN Task Views" which should help to structure the fast-growing list of packages on CRAN.
Now the first version of a package called ctv (for CRAN Task Views) is available from CRAN and also two frist drafts for such views can be seen at http://CRAN.R-project.org/src/contrib/Views/ When you install the ctv package you can also query this from within R via: CRAN.views() install.views("Econometrics", lib = "/path/to/foo") New views can be easily written in an XML-based format from which we can generate the HTML information displayed on the Web and also the information needed for querying the views via CRAN.views(). The package contains a short vignette that explains how to write new task views. Feedback on the package would be very welcome! Furthermore, if you want to write and maintain a new task view for a certain topic, that would be great! Just drop me an e-mail with your suggestion. Best wishes from Vienna, Z ______________________________________________ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
