[R] R package organization

[Thomas Lumley]

On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Egon Willighagen wrote:

> On Wednesday 3 April 2002 16:44, Michael Friendly wrote:
> > As I look over the list of packages on CRAN, I don't see
> > any obvious categories, but perhaps others will have some
> > ideas on this topic.
>
> It does not have to be just one map... Freshmeat.net and some other
> sites use something called Trove categories (e.g.
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/jchempaint).
> There can be several trees in which a package can be found, possibly even
> at different leaves in the same tree.
>

That sounds more promising than anything that's been suggested so far.
It wouldn't actually have to be done centrally at CRAN, and different
trees could be constructed for different disciplines (eg some people think
that logistic and linear regression are basically the same thing and
MANOVA is very different, other people think that linear regression and
MANOVA are basically the same thing and logistic regression is different).


	-thomas


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