think it could be quite useful for most r-users to (keep r-project web
site as functional as today but to) offer a links page complementary to
other Documentation pages that could link to some of the numerous
resources (scripts, etc) on the internet in personal home pages or
academic sites
Hi,
To sum up :
* yes, the R website is operationnal. There is no reason whatsoever to
change its content.
* no javascript, no flash, no chartjunk !!
* rework the style, start wih the css file(s)
* stop with those frames, and use css to place some kind of fake frames
* maybe store the name of
The webmasters have not AFAICS replied in this thread, and perhaps you
should wait for them.
In particular, making cran.r-project.org an autodirector to the nearest
mirror and replacing frames have I believe already been agreed and just
need resources to implement (and first www. and
Romain Francois wrote:
What about
- place somewhere a div called 'Focus on a package' where we could have
a short presentation of a package, etc ... or for a CRAN task view (to
do that, php would be great, but we can do I don't know perl scripts to
generate static html pages)
- a
Le 26.04.2006 12:14, Prof Brian Ripley a écrit :
The webmasters have not AFAICS replied in this thread, and perhaps you
should wait for them.
In particular, making cran.r-project.org an autodirector to the
nearest mirror and replacing frames have I believe already been agreed
and just
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
what about improving the Links page, with for instance a list of links
- such as thoses in task views - grouped by theme, instead of modifying
r-project site ?
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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
Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com writes:
Maybe a separate web site that shows R off or maybe just
a pointer to the R Graph Gallery.
I think the idea of a pointer to the R Graph Gallery is a better one than
changing the current R website. I think that the main R web site should
I am coming late into the discussion, so apologies if the following
points are redundant.
1) IMHO, the most important feature that would make life a lot easier
for everyone is having search engines on the main webpage. I know you
can click on the Search on the left hand side pane but putting it
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
While there is nothing about the r-project site that I would consider fancy,
it is pretty functional. I would be interested to hear more about what you
hope to accomplish by re-doing the web site. Fancy graphics may just slow
down the experience for those not on broadband. After all, the r-help
On 04/25/06 18:53, 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
Hi Romain,
Generally a competition is a bad way of coming up with a new design.
It generally emphasises looks over function and, of course, requires
people to put in a lot of effort for a small chance of gain. I'd also
agree with Friedrich that few people will enter.
My opinion is if that
Romain,
The R Web site is working fine. Even if it is not relifted from a long
time, it is functional. So, this is the point... and it should remain,
at least, as functional as it is.
One aspect that could be easily relooked is the CSS file. I would
definitely be in favor of a more styled CSS.
roger bos wrote:
While there is nothing about the r-project site that I would consider fancy,
it is pretty functional. I would be interested to hear more about what you
hope to accomplish by re-doing the web site. Fancy graphics may just slow
down the experience for those not on broadband.
I must agree with Jon--the site is clean and material is easily found and
readily available. I wouldn't want changes which, while visually
stimulating, would detract from the clarity of presentation.
What I don't see is a way for the visitor to contact the Web page
maintainer to comment or
I volunteer to attempt this, but only after I get my grades in
(May 8). If it gets done by someone else before that, I'll be
happy.
Don't worry. It won't look like my personal page, or even my R
page. But I do know quite a bit about CSS.
On 04/25/06 12:37, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 25
On 25 April 2006 at 13:18, Jonathan Baron wrote:
| The only thing I might change is to replace the frames with some
| sort of CSS-based positioning.
Yes please!
Dirk
--
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
The R Web site is working fine. Even if it is not relifted from a long
time, it is functional. So, this is the point... and it should remain,
at least, as functional as it is.
As an experienced user of the R website, this probably is true for
you. However, there are a number of confusing
: Re: [R] www.r-project.org
While there is nothing about the r-project site that I would
consider fancy,
it is pretty functional. I would be interested to hear more
about what you
hope to accomplish by re-doing the web site. Fancy graphics
may just slow
down the experience for those
OK, I try...
What do you think about the fonts and styles of titles versus text in...
http://wiki.r-project.org?
This is obviously in the line of: would we change the styles in the CSS
file (while we are replacing frames with appropriate styles too)?
May be am I a little confused. Normal.
On 4/25/06, hadley wickham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The R Web site is working fine. Even if it is not relifted from a long
time, it is functional. So, this is the point... and it should remain,
at least, as functional as it is.
As an experienced user of the R website, this probably is true
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 14:09 -0400, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On 4/25/06, hadley wickham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The R Web site is working fine. Even if it is not relifted from a long
time, it is functional. So, this is the point... and it should remain,
at least, as functional as it is.
Its not hard if you know what to do but if you don't then its a nuisance
to figure it out every time.
On 4/25/06, Gavin Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 14:09 -0400, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On 4/25/06, hadley wickham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The R Web site is
see inline
hadley wickham wrote:
The R Web site is working fine. snip
As an experienced user of the R website, this probably is true for
you. However, there are a number of confusing problems for new users
of the site:
* how do you download R?
* how do you bookmark a specific page?
On Windows, right click the web page, choose Properties and
copy the url there.
On 4/25/06, Spencer Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
see inline
hadley wickham wrote:
The R Web site is working fine. snip
As an experienced user of the R website, this probably is true for
you. However,
Barry Rowlingson wrote:
The frame-based nature of the CRAN pages is slightly problematic,
since you click on a menu item and the URL doesn't change. Hence there's
no way to send someone a URL that gives them the same view as you'd get
if you go to the home page and then click on
Hi, Gabor: inline
Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On Windows, right click the web page, choose Properties and
copy the url there.
That works, and I will use it in the future. Thanks.
However, if the subject is not educating Spencer Graves but how to
make www.r-project.org more user friendly,
Isn't Other Contributed Documentation sufficient? Usability guidelines
for websites suggest that you should have as few top-level menu items as
possible, say 5-6 max... OK the R website is not like
insert_company_name.com type website, but you wouldn't want to flood
users with too many
hadley wickham wrote:
Isn't Other Contributed Documentation sufficient? Usability guidelines
snip
However, this is heuristic for the number of top-level categories -
there is no reason why there could not be a direct link to contributed
documentation from the home page.
I find it a minor
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