[Rd] Packages of snippets? (was: A way to list only variables or
functions?)
Gabor Grothendieck
ggrothendieck at myway.com
Thu Jun 24 04:51:23 CEST 2004
From: Duncan Murdoch <dmurdoch at pair.com>
>I do understand the feeling of
>writing a nice little function, and not knowing exactly what to do
>with it: CRAN is crowded, and it does seem that an entire package
>just to support one or two simple functions is a bit of overkill.
>Can we work out a way to publish such things? Here's a
>proposal, with some serious flaws listed below.
>Can someone fix them?
This would be a good job for a wiki. The key advantage is it
requires minimal maintenance.
For an example of how this might work check out the code
samples (snippets) for the Lua language on their wiki at:
http://lua-users.org/wiki/SampleCode
Actually there is already an R wiki at:
http://fawn.unibw-hamburg.de/cgi-bin/Rwiki.pl?RwikiHome
however, no one seems to use it. If a critical mass were to
post some code snippets it might get off the ground.
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