Quite nice and simple. A thing of beauty is a joy forever.Thanks a lot. Regards,
Ajay www.decisionstats.com On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca>wrote: > Hadley put together a couple of nice versions of the main Windows download > page cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base, and I've adopted one of them for > the release, and the patched and devel snapshot builds. They should show up > on CRAN in a few hours. > > Thanks a lot for the contribution, Hadley: I hope you also get involved in > the larger CRAN redesign mentioned elsewhere in this thread. > > Duncan Murdoch > > On 2/3/2009 9:20 AM, hadley wickham wrote: > >> Again I'd disagree, perhaps the most widely used suite of software has a >>> very simple and clean web-site with few bells and whistles, ditto for one >>> of >>> the most popular text-editors. I am of course referring to the suite of >>> GNU >>> utilities (http://www.gnu.org/) that make a working GNU/Linux >>> distribution >>> and Emacs (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ ). >>> >>> I like the R web-site, its clean and simple, present key information >>> prominently (manuals, docs, CRAN, RNew and mailing lists). >>> >> >> Have you ever used the R website? >> >> To download the latest version for R for windows you have to: >> >> 1. avoid clicking on the "R version 2.8.1" link - that takes you to a >> directory listing of strangely named files >> >> 2. recognise that you need to click on an CRAN (what is a cran?) >> >> 3. successfully select a mirror that is up-to-date (with no >> information about which mirrors are up-to-date) >> >> 4. click Windows (ok, this one is easy) >> >> 5. guess that base is the "distribution" that you want >> >> 6. phew, you're there (but don't follow the advice to download from a >> mirror near you or you'll be back at step 3) >> >> And then if you want to email the url of that page to someone else you >> have to jump through hoops because it's embedded in a frame. >> >> Hadley >> >> > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[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.
