On 12/05/2009 09:32 PM, Tal Galili wrote:
Hi Dirk, I wish to emphasis that I came across PlanetR over a year ago, but completely forgot it existed when working on R-bloggers. Also, when I contacted the bloggers about this idea, non of them actually wrote to me about it (which makes me feel better about not remembering it). I apologies if setting up R-bloggers seems like trying to "compete" with PlanetR, this at all wasn't my intention. Yet, now that my website is up, I hope it will be of use and here are several ways in which (at hindsight) I can say it has something to offer: 1) Planet R is limited (for years) to 26 feeds only, and I don't remember seeing it evolve to include (or allow inclusion) of new R blogs that came around.
That's not quite true. If you send an email to the maintainer of planet R, he will add your feed (both my blog and r graph gallery was added this year for example).
2) The feeds are of blogs and non blogs (such as wiki or cran updates). That makes finding "reading material" inside it very difficult, since the site is cluttered with a lot of "updates" from cranbarries and the wiki.
I see this as a good thing. In the program i use to read planet R (thunderbird) you can filter out things you are not interested about.
I have requested to be added to yours anyway, might be good for my pagerank.
3) In PlanetR, one can only view (about) 5 days back and no more (R-bloggers allows viewing of much more then 5 days back). 4) R-bloggers allows searching inside the content, PlanetR doesn't. 5) R-bloggers allow one to get e-mail updates, PlanetR doesn't. 6) R-bloggers offers "related articles", PlanetR doesn't. I see R-bloggers<http://www.r-bloggers.com/> as a "news site" based on the R bloggers, and I can't say the same about PlanetR for the reasons I gave above. With much respect to you Dirk, Tal ----------------Contact Details:------------------------------------------------------- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com/ (English) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel<e...@debian.org> wrote:On 5 December 2009 at 21:38, Tal Galili wrote: | R-Bloggers.com hopes to serve the R community by presenting (in one place) | all the new articles (posts) written (in English) about R in the "R | blogosphere". But how is that different from http://PlanetR.stderr.org which has been doing the same quite admirably for years? Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.
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