Dear List,
I'm aware that this has been brought up before (e.g. <http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e6/help/09/03/7365.html> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e6/help/09/03/7365.html ; <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-March/190902.html> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-March/190902.html), I couldn't find anything recent on the topic, though. After pondering all the pros and cons regarding the usefulness of a rating/review system for R packages, don't you think it would make sense to implement such a thing? Of course one could easily debate hours on how this should exactly look like (quality vs. quantitiy/popularity and such), but IMHO it would definitely be a start to have something like a simple version Amazon's review system available. It would allow you to form at least an initial opinion on purpose and quality of R packages before going at it. As more and more packages pop up on CRAN, I think it'd be great to have such a feature and that the time is ripe. Cheers, Janko [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
