Re: [R-pkg-devel] How do you discover and learn about R packages?

2017-03-20 Thread Julia Silge
Yes, great input! I appreciate Dirk also bringing up CRANberries earlier; it is such a valuable resource. I know that users are glad to access it via Twitter and its separate website. Thanks so much, Julia On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 3:27 PM Mark van der Loo wrote: > Julia, > > Just took the poll.

Re: [R-pkg-devel] How do you discover and learn about R packages?

2017-03-20 Thread Mark van der Loo
Julia, Just took the poll. I think cranberries would deserve mention there as well. It is the only continuous feed that reports in new pkgs and updates (that I know of). Best, Mark On Mon, Mar 20, 2017, 14:57 Julia Silge wrote: > I am contributing to a session at userR 2017 this coming July t

[R-pkg-devel] How do you discover and learn about R packages?

2017-03-20 Thread Julia Silge
I am contributing to a session at userR 2017 this coming July that will focus on discovering and learning about R packages. This is an increasingly important issue for R users as we all decide which of the 10,000+ packages to invest time in understanding and then use in our work. To prepare for th

[R-pkg-devel] NOTE with unusual but theoretically allowed person roles

2017-03-20 Thread Miguel Menéndez
While checking a package as cran with R 3.3.2 (Windows 8 and Ubuntu 16.04), I am getting a NOTE about person roles which are unusual but theoretically allowed. In the DESCRIPTION file I set: Authors@R: c( person("First", "Person", email = "m...@mail.com", role = c("aut", "cre")), person("Sec