Thank you Frederick for your comments: They are really well justified.
> I think a "forum" or bulletin board system would be a detraction from the > project and a distraction for the project leaders. Users have Stack Exchange > - it's better than any forum we could create, and it > takes care of itself. An excellent idea would be to add in the R Project Webpage a link to RSeek, in order to put all together. This can be done in a fast and easy way. > I too was annoyed by the state of the bug reporting system when I first > started using R, and that was even before automatic account creation was > disabled. I think the situation could be improved. > I don't think it's a huge burden to tell bug reporters to ask for an account > via the R-devel mailing list. But from what I can see the bug tracker doesn't > make it clear that this has to be done. We should at > least post a message on the main page explaining how people can create an > account. This would be less work than what Juan is suggesting, but I think > sufficient for our needs. Yes, clarifying in the RProject webpage that accounts could be requested for bug reporting in Bugzilla would be a great news, but it shall be really good justified. > I think this is a terrible idea. I've only been using R for a few years and > while I find these "tidyverse" packages interesting and use them on occasion, > I've also concluded that they change too quickly to > be used in code that I want to stay working for a long time. They are largely > based on experimental concepts. Being able to change and evolve is part of > the strength of these packages. So I think putting > them in the R Base distribution would be bad for all parties. Totally agree. > I think the R project web page looks great. It's simple and it loads quickly > and doesn't try to mesmerize people. I like R's command line interface. It > completes on symbols and files and I can easily use it > with my favorite editor and run it in the terminal of my choice. I don't > think that more effort should be put into developing bloated GUIs which try > to enforce a standard way of interacting with R. I agree, but, in my opinion, the RGUI icons shall have a little bit more modern look. Just a bit. Thank you, Juan ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
