On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Steven Sagaert <steven.saga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > I’ve been using R on and off for a couple of years. I think R is pretty > great but one thing I’d like to see improved is the way packages are > organised. Instead of CRAN being a long list of packages having a short & > usually unintelligible name I ‘d like to see packages organised in a > hierarchical way with that path acting as a hierarchical namespace just > like you have in many other languages like Java, C#,Scala,… The names of > the (sub)packages should also be clear and unambiguous & packages should be > organised according to their functionality and not just for example be code > for a whole book thrown together and given a cryptic name. > > Next to that it would be nice to have extra metadata in the packages to > allow for another more loose flat multi-class class-action like in tagging > blog systems & other metadata to allow for for automatically generating > something like task views. > > Just wanted to point out that this extra metadata idea has been pursued by the Bioconductor BiocViews feature. http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/BiocViews.html > Due to the large number of packages it’s hard to see the forest from the > trees so a recommendation system for CRAN based on popularity (download > statistics) , ratings & other data like related packages from package > metadata would be most welcome. > > Finally the number of packages in CRAN is exponentially growing but there > is also a large partial overlap in functionality between packages & so many > packages make it hard to find what you are looking for. So maybe there less > is more and there should be a system of removing hardly used/low quality > packages on a regular basis. > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
