> A new user will come to the R homepage, go to CRAN via the link under > download and from there see Packages and then be swamped by the huge > number available. Having Task Views as a link on the R homepage would > make these more visible.
I would think that a new user would see the download heading, then think - I don't want to download a cran (whatever that is) I want to downloaded R, and then continue to be confused for another 10 minutes until they ask their colleague down the hall for the sequence of 5 (cran -> mirror -> windows -> base -> R-2.6.1-win32.exe) clicks that they need to find the installer! It would be nice to automatically provide a link to the current version of R for the platform that the user is browsing from (see e.g. getfirefox.com). Automatic selection of a mirror would be just as desirable, although I still maintain it would be better to dump the mirror system entirely and move to a content delivery network (CDN). Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
