From ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de  Mon May 25 01:40:16 2015
From: ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 01:40:16 +0200
Subject: [Rd] MetaCran website v1.0.0-alpha
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Thanks for letting us know about the new website. Some comments:

- Download statistics: Where are they from? CRAN does not monitor 
downloads generally, maybe some selected mirrors do.
- Section "Recently updated" can only hold 9 packages, but frequently 
more than 9 get accepted even within an hour, hence not sure if this 
makes sense.
- The links "Download R" and "CRAN homepage" point to a particular link 
of a mirror rather than the official pages. I'd appreciate if you do not 
link to selected mirrors. The R homepage on purpose links to 
http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html when pointing to CRAN.

Best,
Uwe Ligges



On 24.05.2015 11:44, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> 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
Uwe Ligges