From mark.vanderloo at gmail.com  Mon Jan 29 12:02:17 2018
From: mark.vanderloo at gmail.com (Mark van der Loo)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:02:17 +0000
Subject: [Rd] Searching R Packages
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Dear Spencer,

Nice initiative!

I discover a lot of packages not by explicit search, but by running into
them. I find cranberries really helpful there, especially the twitter feed
(@CRANberries) and also r-bloggers, especially through Joseph Rickert's
monthly roundup of new packages. And then of course there is the R journal
and JSS, but those speak for themselves.

So maybe a 'keeping up to date' section would be nice in the article?

Best,
Mark





Op ma 29 jan. 2018 om 00:25 schreef Ravi Varadhan <ravi.varadhan at jhu.edu>:

> Hi Spencer,
> Thank you for this wonderful service to the R community.
>
> A suggestion:  it would be great to discuss how to search github and
> Bioconductor repositories.
>
> Thanks,
> Ravi
>
> ________________________________________
> From: R-devel <r-devel-bounces at r-project.org> on behalf of Spencer Graves
> <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2018 11:17 AM
> To: R-Devel
> Subject: [Rd] Searching R Packages
>
> Hello, All:
>
>
>           Might you have time to review the article I recently posted to
> Wikiversity on "Searching R Packages"
> (https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Searching_R_Packages)?
>
>
>           Please edit this yourself or propose changes in the associated
> "Discuss" page or in an email to this list or to me.
>
>
>           My goal in this is to invite readers to turn that article into a
> proposal for improving the search capabilities in R that would
> ultimately be funded by, e.g., The R Foundation.
>
>
>           What do you think?
>
>
>           Please forward this to anyone you think might be interested.
>
>
>           Thanks for your contributions to improving the lot of humanity
> through better statistical software.
>
>
>        Best Wishes,
>        Spencer Graves, PhD
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