[R] How to search for packages

[Tobias Sing]

Hadley,

On Feb 4, 2008 5:03 PM, hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> Before Christmas I started working on a solution for this -
> http://crantastic.org - a site for searching, reviewing and tagging R
> packages.  Unfortunately I've run out of steam lately (and the lack of
> a 64-bit ubuntu package for R means it's a bit out of date), but the
> basic ideas are there.  If you like how the site is looking so far
> please let me know, as it will be motivation for me to get the site
> finished.

it's just amazing how you still find some time for things besides
ggplot2 et al... Appreciating all your work so far, it'd be great to
keep you motivated for crantastic as well.

I think crantastic would be a good complement to task views:
- more likely to be up-to-date when used by many people
- reflecting the opinion/experiences of various users rather than that
of a single task view maintainer

Some additional benefit could be gained by adding a rating system and
by allowing packages to be sorted by number of comments a package has
received, average rating, etc. Such sorting options could even be
useful within a view for certain selected tags, because I guess some
tags - e.g. 'graphics' - might ultimately be given to a large number
of packages).

Cheers,
  Tobias