[R] How to search for packages - wrap up!
Charilaos Skiadas
cskiadas at gmail.com
Wed Feb 6 05:26:27 CET 2008
On Feb 5, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Monica Pisica wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
>
> I have to recognize that my post certainly shows my lack of skills
> in really navigating the R web page .... i am surprised that only
> one or two persons wrote me about the "Task Views" - it is what i
> was after - although maybe too general for my lazy taste - but hei
> - it is there and certainly makes my life easier. So - Thank you
> John and Gabor and Roger for pointing this out. I cannot believe
> that i never discovered this by myself ...... If anybody takes up
> the challenge Roger set up i would love to see it ;-))
>
I have to say that the Task Views are a tad harder to find than I
would have expected. Namely, if someone goes to the main page:
http://www.r-project.org/
shouldn't there be a direct link to the Task Views page? Currently
you have to go through CRAN, but I would not think of going to the
CRAN link under the "Download" section, if what I was looking for was
Task Views. Task Views have nothing to do with "Download", and from a
new/potential user's perspective they have nothing to do with CRAN
either.
But perhaps I am missing something very obvious?
Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College
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