Maybe a separate web site that shows R off or maybe just a pointer to the R Graph Gallery.
On 4/26/06, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Romain Francois wrote: > > Dear R users and developpers, > > > > My question is adressed to both of you, so I choose R-help to post it. > > > > Are there any plans to jazz up the main R website : http://www.r-project.org > > The look it have now is the same for a long time and kind of sad > > compared to other statistical package's website. Of course, the > > comparison is not fair, since companies are paying web designers to draw > > lollipop websites ... > > There have been various suggestions along these lines (check the > archives), but there are a number of constraints that make the problem > difficult: > > - there are two web sites, www.r-project.org and cran.r-project.org > with different needs. In particular, CRAN must be very low tech because > it is mirrored on very diverse sites (including local copies, e.g. on a > CDROM). > > - There are a lot of busy people who need to edit these pages > occasionally, so a stable, standard, simple setup is extremely > desirable. That means simple HTML to be edited in a text editor, no > special CMS. > > These requirements are quite hard to meet, so expect changes to the web > sites to be very time consuming, and possibly rejected en masse in the end. > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > > My first idea was to organize some kind of web designing contest. > > But, I had a small talk with Friedrich Leisch about that, who said that > > I shouldn't expect too many competitors. > > So, what about creating a small team, create a home page project and > > then propose it to the core team. > > It goes without saying it : The core team has the final word. > > > > What do you think ? Who would like to play ? > > > > Romain > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
