[Rd] Wishlist - Give R a name that shows up in search engines ...
Friedrich.Leisch@tuwien.ac.at
Friedrich.Leisch at tuwien.ac.at
Wed Mar 8 17:57:13 CET 2006
>>>>> On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:55:51 +0000,
>>>>> Hin-Tak Leung (HL) wrote:
> roger bos wrote:
>> Indeed, when I was writing code in Java or VBA and I needed code, say to
>> buble sort or invert a CDF, I could find many examples on the web since
>> the user base was so large. R has something better: CRAN. It was
>> really smart to make a central repository where useRs can share code.
>> No other language that I can think of really has an equivalent. All I
>> have to do it search CRAN and I can find 99% of what out there (I'm
>> making a guess on the actual number here).
> <snipped>
> Hang on there - "No other language that I can think of really has
> an equivalent." - have you heard of CPAN, and CTAN? CRAN
> was modelled *after* CPAN, which in turn was modelled after CTAN...
> Either of them is far bigger in size, far older in history, and far
> more well-established.
> In fact, I am sorry to say, the search engine of either CPAN or CTAN
> are better than CRAN's. (this last sentence is subjective, of course).
> Obviously not a Perl nor TeX user then.
> (probably not a good idea to express this on r-devel, nevermind)
No problem at all ... I take it you volunteer to design, setup, host,
and maintain a better system?
Best,
Fritz
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