From Friedrich.Leisch at tuwien.ac.at  Wed Mar  8 17:57:13 2006
From: Friedrich.Leisch at tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich.Leisch@tuwien.ac.at)
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:57:13 +0100
Subject: [Rd] Wishlist - Give R a name that shows up in search engines
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>>>>> On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:55:51 +0000,
>>>>> Hin-Tak Leung (HL) wrote:

  > roger bos wrote:
  >> Indeed, when I was writing code in Java or VBA and I needed code, say to 
  >> buble sort or invert a CDF, I could find many examples on the web since 
  >> the user base was so large.  R has something better: CRAN.  It was 
  >> really smart to make a central repository where useRs can share code.  
  >> No other language that I can think of really has an equivalent.  All I 
  >> have to do it search CRAN and I can find 99% of what out there (I'm 
  >> making a guess on the actual number here).
  > <snipped>

  > Hang on there - "No other language that I can think of really has
  > an equivalent." - have you heard of CPAN, and CTAN? CRAN
  > was modelled *after* CPAN, which in turn was modelled after CTAN...
  > Either of them is far bigger in size, far older in history, and far
  > more well-established.

  > In fact, I am sorry to say, the search engine of either CPAN or CTAN
  > are better than CRAN's. (this last sentence is subjective, of course).

  > Obviously not a Perl nor TeX user then.

  > (probably not a good idea to express this on r-devel, nevermind)

No problem at all ... I take it you volunteer to design, setup, host,
and maintain a better system?

Best,
Fritz



[Rd] Wishlist - Give R a name that shows up in search engines ...
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