On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Gavin Simpson <gavin.simp...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 18:43 -0400, Stavros Macrakis wrote: >> ... no way to find relevant functions, and no way of knowing which one to >> use if there is more than one.
> That is what the Task Views are meant to address, for discrete subject areas. Thanks for the information about Task Views -- I was completely unaware of this effort, which looks very valuable. Shouldn't it be linked from somewhere in the 'documentation' section of r-project.org? Since it was not, I was unaware of the master CRAN documentation page (http://cran.r-project.org/) -- and I still don't know how to get to this page from the R-project home page. The only link to CRAN info on the R-project home page is entitled "Download"; when you click on CRAN, you get a list of mirror sites. If you then click on any particular mirror site, you get a page (e.g. http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/) which talks about downloading binaries and source. On clicking Software/Packages, you get to a page with an alphabetical list of a large number of packages, which finally mentions CRAN Task Views. It's a pity that such valuable information is so hard to find in the site. It would be useful to add better "information scent" to the various links, and also to flatten the hierarchy a bit. Thanks again for the pointer. -s ______________________________________________ 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.
