A nice model might be http://www.workingwithrails.com/.
It also suggests other possible measures of authority: * member of R core * packages written by/contributed to * R conference attended/presented at * contributer to wiki Hadley On 11/30/07, Doran, Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since R is open source and help may come from varied levels of > experience on R-Help, I wonder if it might be helpful to construct a > method that can be used to "rate" those who provide help on this list. > > This is something that is done on other comp lists, like > http://www.experts-exchange.com/. > > I think some of the reasons for this are pretty transparent, but I > suppose one reason is that one could decide to implement the advise of > those with "superior" or "expert" levels. In other words, you can trust > the advice of someone who is more experienced more than someone who is > not. Currently, there is no way to discern who on this list is really an > R expert and who is not. Of course, there is R core, but most people > don't actually know who these people are (at least I surmise that to be > true). > > If this is potentially useful, maybe one way to begin the development of > such ratings is to allow the original poster to "rate" the level of help > from those who responded. Maybe something like a very simple > questionnaire on a likert-like scale that the original poster would > respond to upon receiving help which would lead to the accumulation of > points for the responders. Higher points would result in higher levels > of expertise (e.g., novice, ..., wizaRd). > > Just a random thought. What do others think? > > Harold > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.