If I understand this correctly, I think it is a great idea. Just to be
sure I do understand, would you expect there might also be a "Time
Series" view, which would probably overlap some with the "Econometrics"
view?
Paul Gilbert
Achim Zeileis wrote:
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
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