Re: [R-pkg-devel] UseR! Session: Making R easier to use (was: Navigating the jungle of R packages)

2017-02-12 Thread Mark van der Loo
Fwiw, there's also something called the awesome lists ( https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome, and see the R list here: https://github.com/qinwf/awesome-R), which is basically a kind of task views for any language, and controlled via git pull requests. Not sure if this would be a good alternativ

Re: [R-pkg-devel] UseR! Session: Making R easier to use (was: Navigating the jungle of R packages)

2017-02-12 Thread Spencer Graves
On 2017-02-11 7:39 AM, J C Nash wrote: Certainly Google can be useful, but it can also be infuriatingly time-wasting when one needs to sort out related tools that do slightly different things. Then good, up-to-date task views are important, and wrappers such as I and some others are trying to de