From ggrothendieck at gmail.com  Fri Mar  5 13:33:26 2010
From: ggrothendieck at gmail.com (Gabor Grothendieck)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 07:33:26 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Suggestion to add crantastic to resources section on
	posting guide
In-Reply-To: <hmqnoq$8uj$1@dough.gmane.org>
References: <hmqnoq$8uj$1@dough.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <971536df1003050433i7f104bd4l1e1421fab0d3f73@mail.gmail.com>

I don't think we should be expanding the posting guide.  Its already
so long that no one reads it.  We should be thinking of ways to cut it
down to a smaller size instead.

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Matthew Dowle <mdowle at mdowle.plus.com> wrote:
> Under the "further resources" section I'd like to suggest the following
> addition :
>
> * ?http://crantastic.org/ lists popular packages according to other users
> votes. Consider briefly reviewing the top 30 packages before posting to
> r-help since someone may have already released a package that solves your
> problem.
>
> Thats just a straw man idea so I hope there will be answer, or discussion,
> either way.
>
> Matthew
>
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[Rd] Suggestion to add crantastic to resources section on posting guide
Gabor Grothendieck