On Sun, 02-Dec-2007 at 11:20PM +, S Ellison wrote:
| Package review is a nice idea. But you raise a worrying point.
| Are any of the 'downright dangerous' packages on CRAN?
Don't know about dangerous, but I would like the opportunity to
provide feedback or to have seen feedback from others
S Ellison wrote:
Package review is a nice idea. But you raise a worrying point.
Are any of the 'downright dangerous' packages on CRAN?
If so, er... why?
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I think the need for this is rather urgent, in fact. Most packages are
very good, but I regret
John Sorkin wrote:
I believe we need to know the following about packages:
(1) Does the package do what it purports to do, i.e. are the results
valid?
(2) Have the results generated by the package been validate against some
other statistical package, or hand-worked example?
(3) Are the
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John Sorkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe we need to know the following about packages:
(1) Does the package do what it purports to do, i.e. are the results valid?
(2) Have the results generated by the package been validate against some
other statistical package, or hand-worked example?
On Dec 1, 2007 2:21 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To me a much more urgent initiative is some kind of user online review
system for packages, even something as simple as that used by Amazon.com
has for customer review of books.
I think the need for this is rather urgent, in fact. Most
To: R Help
Subject: [R] Rating R Helpers
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
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Mark Kimpel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 05:28:28PM CET]:
What I would find useful would be some sort of tagging system for messages.
Hrm. I find tags immensely useful for entities which do not contain primarily
text, such as photos. I am at doubt how keywords are important when they
On Nov 30, 2007 1:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Doran, Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2007/11/30 Fri PM 02:12:36 CST
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Subject: [R] Rating R Helpers
Of course, it's just MHO, but I think your suggestion is more work than
neccesary because it becomes
Maybe I haven't been on the list long enough, but how bad is the R
advice on this list? Is a rating system even necessary?
As Mark Leeds pointed out, there is the issue that what a beginner
thinks is good advice isn't what an expert thinks in good advice. There
is also the converse, expert
From: Doran, Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2007/11/30 Fri PM 02:12:36 CST
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Subject: [R] Rating R Helpers
Of course, it's just MHO, but I think your suggestion is more work than
neccesary because it becomes pretty obvious who the R-experts are once you've
been
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
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:
Doran, Harold 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
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