--- hadley wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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!
I think it took me longer but I found it without the help of a colleague since they were all SPSS or (gasp) Excel users It is rather confusing. > > 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. > Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! ______________________________________________ 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.
