For now, stars are the best bad measurement we have.
On Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 8:05:16 AM UTC-8, Jérôme Collet wrote: > > Hi all, > > > I am new to Julia, I used to use R. And using R packages, the main > difficulty for me is the choice of a package for a given task. Most of the > time, there are many packages solving the same problem, so we have to > choose. > > - A first possibility could be the TaskViews, but it is easy to see > that around a third of all packages is listed in a TaskView, so being > listed does not say anything about quality. > - Thanks to Rstudio, it is possible to know how many times a given > package was downloaded. It is an indication about package quality. But > this > indication is difficult to obtain, and not very reliable. > - I heard that in Matlab, it is easy to know the experience about a > package, or even a function of a package, compared to other similar > functions in another packages. > > So, are there any plans to collect, store and share the experience on > packages? >
