I am not sure if its still the case but one of the problems with the Planet R feed was that it had material in it not related to R or statistics or any technical subject at all so if you harvest it be sure to exclude such sources.
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Elijah Wright <elijah.wri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Tal! > > First let me say that I deeply appreciate the work that you're putting into > this. You're doing good things for our community, and that's great! > > I put the planet-R stuff together rather hastily a few years ago, as a way > of seeing whether it was of enough use for the community for > it to be something that the R project would want to provide as a standard > service offering. ;) At that moment in time, it seemed like a > slightly fringe thing to do, but I think the community has grown into it a > bit now. There are a *lot* more R-related RSS feeds in the > ecosystem now than there were a couple or three years back. > > Another aspect - a couple of years ago, we didn't have decent recommenders > for related feeds from things like Google Reader. Nowadays, > once google finds an R-related feed, it starts to suggest it to me. That's > very powerful, and I think the need for a centralized "planet"-style > site is somewhat reduced by it. > > I'd strongly suggest that you make your site as community-oriented as > possible, probably by asking folks in the > community (like, say, Romain...) to help you run and administer the thing. > That will make it more like a community project, and > reduce the load on you personally. I should have done something like that > with the planetr.stderr.org site long ago - as Dirk notes, > my cycle time for responding to mail and notes is a bit slow, and my time > budget for messing about with the site is also pretty amazingly limited. > > As you note - there's not really much by way of contact information in the > planetr templates. They're quite limited and quite unimpressive. :) But, > well, the amount of work that was required to get a "working" site up was > also incredibly small for me. > > I'd be happy to see you harvest links out of planetr.stderr.org and add them > to your r-bloggers site - some of the links I've collected there are > institutional (journal feeds and the like) and should be possible to add > without any consultation. For the individual bloggers, I'd suggest > contacting them to get permission to add their feeds - it just seems like > the polite thing to do. > > Again, I want to thank you publicly for spending your time on this, and am > happy to see someone taking action to improve communication > and discussion across the R community of users and developers. This > benefits us all, greatly! > > Best, and be well, > > --elijah > > > On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Tal Galili <tal.gal...@gmail.com> 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. >> 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. >> 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. >> > >> >> [[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. >> > > [[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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
