Good morning,
I read (and occasionally post to) R-Help through nabble.com
(http://www.nabble.com/R-f13819.html) and there is a rating system there by
post rather than by author.
Message boards (e.g. www.boards.ie amongst many others) note on each message
how many posts that a person has made sin
On Dec 5, 2007 12:49 AM, Patrick Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 04-Dec-2007 at 05:32PM -0800, Ben Bolker wrote:
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> |> > Package review is a nice idea. But you raise a worrying point.
> |> > Are any of the 'downright dangerous' packages on
On Tue, 04-Dec-2007 at 05:32PM -0800, Ben Bolker wrote:
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|> S Ellison wrote:
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|> > Package review is a nice idea. But you raise a worrying point.
|> > Are any of the 'downright dangerous' packages on CRAN?
|> > If so, er... why?
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John Sorkin wrote:
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> I believe we need to know the following about packages:
> (1) Does the package do what it purports to do, i.e. are the results
> valid?
> (2) Have the results generated by the package been validate against some
> other statistical package, or hand-worked example?
> (3) Ar
S Ellison wrote:
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> Package review is a nice idea. But you raise a worrying point.
> Are any of the 'downright dangerous' packages on CRAN?
> If so, er... why?
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>>I think the need for this is rather urgent, in fact. Most packages are
>>very g
On Sun, 02-Dec-2007 at 11:20PM +, S Ellison wrote:
|> Package review is a nice idea. But you raise a worrying point.
|> Are any of the 'downright dangerous' packages on CRAN?
Don't know about "dangerous", but I would like the opportunity to
provide feedback or to have seen feedback from other
"John Sorkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe we need to know the following about packages:
> (1) Does the package do what it purports to do, i.e. are the results valid?
> (2) Have the results generated by the package been validate against some
> other statistical package, or hand-worked e
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Package review is a nice idea. But you raise a worrying point.
Are any of the 'downright dangerous' packages on CRAN?
If so, er... why?
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/01/07 7:21 AM >>>
>I think the need for this is rather urgent, in fact. Most packages are
>very good, but I regret to say some are pr
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> Since R is open source and help may come from
On Dec 1, 2007 2:21 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To me a much more urgent initiative is some kind of user online review
> system for packages, even something as simple as that used by Amazon.com
> has for customer review of books.
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> I think the need for this is rather urgent, in fact. Most
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On Behalf Of Doran, Harold
Sent: Saturday, 1 December 2007 6:13 AM
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Subject: [R] Rating R Helpers
Since R is open source and help may come from varied levels of
experience on R-Help, I wonder if it might be helpful to construct a
method that
see it happen,
Matt
On Nov 30, 2007 1:53 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >From: "Doran, Harold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Date: 2007/11/30 Fri PM 02:12:36 CST
> >To: R Help <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: [R] Rating R Helpers
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> Of cou
Maybe I haven't been on the list long enough, but how bad is the R
advice on this list? Is a rating system even necessary?
As Mark Leeds pointed out, there is the issue that what a beginner
thinks is good advice isn't what an expert thinks in good advice. There
is also the converse, expert advi
>From: "Doran, Harold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: 2007/11/30 Fri PM 02:12:36 CST
>To: R Help <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [R] Rating R Helpers
Of course, it's just MHO, but I think your suggestion is more work than
neccesary because it becomes pretty ob
A nice model might be http://www.workingwithrails.com/.
It also suggests other possible measures of authority:
* member of R core
* packages written by/contributed to
* R conference attended/presented at
* contributer to wiki
Hadley
On 11/30/07, Doran, Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Si
Doran, Harold wrote:
> Since R is open source and help may come from varied levels of
> experience on R-Help, I wonder if it might be helpful to construct a
> method that can be used to "rate" those who provide help on this list.
>
> This is something that is done on other comp lists, like
> http:
Since R is open source and help may come from varied levels of
experience on R-Help, I wonder if it might be helpful to construct a
method that can be used to "rate" those who provide help on this list.
This is something that is done on other comp lists, like
http://www.experts-exchange.com/.
I t
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