From Rainer at krugs.de  Sun May 24 11:44:50 2015
From: Rainer at krugs.de (Rainer M Krug)
Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 11:44:50 +0200
Subject: [Rd] MetaCran website v1.0.0-alpha
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G?bor Cs?rdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> writes:

> Dear All,
>
> [ I was wondering if this should have gone to the new mailing list. Maybe. ]
>
> As some of you maybe know from my earlier posts, I am building a simple
> search engine for R packages. Now the search engine has a proper web site,
> where you can also browse CRAN packages.
>
> http://www.r-pkg.org/
>
> As I see the value is in
> 1. package search (search box on top right)
> 2. APIs, see http://www.r-pkg.org/services
>
> It is in alpha version, meaning that things seem to work, some pages are a
> bit slow and there are a lot of glitches to fix.

I had a quick peek, and it looks really nice! I particularly think the
github integration for diff-ing versions can be very use full!

It might be an idea, to also add R itself to the github repo for
diff-ing?

Thanks a lot,

Rainer

>
> Please tell me what you think.
>
> Best,
> Gabor
>
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[Rd] MetaCran website v1.0.0-alpha
Rainer M Krug