[R] My remark on libraries

[Philippe Grosjean]

Eric,

What you propose is similar (but not exactly the same) as electronic
reference cards we discussed earlier here and in R-SIG-GUI. A code
repository and a graph gallery,...humm, why not! It seems appealing to me.
Somebody has to take the initiative to start it. So,... go ahead!

Bonne journee,

Philippe

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-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-admin at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-admin at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Eric Lecoutre
Sent: vendredi 7 fevrier 2003 2:25
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] My remark on libraries



Hi R community,

These days, I am writing some functions to work with 2-ways frequency
tables ; you know all this tuff about measures of association: Chisq and
derived (phi, cramer's v), tau b, tau c, somer's d and so on.

So I consider all those functions could be gathered in a single R file, as
they are coherent and dealing with the same problem / objective (analysis
of crosstables). Nervertheless, I wouldn't say there is here enough stuff
to juystify the creation of a library. First, there is here few material,
second it is not enough to cover the practical problem; which should be the
goal of a library.

In fact, I have also lot of others splitted files with R code suitable for
different purposes. And I could easily imagine I am not the only one among
R programmers... And at the end, this is pity that I can't share this code
(and BTW that I can't benefit of other's one!)

I though the solution was to deliver my own (eric)misc library, you know...
But then we would rapidly be overcome by all miscmisc from world, and it
would be difficult to find specific functions with all that libraries.

To me, a possible solution would be to have a page on CRAN listing such R
files. Then, everyone would be able to upload R files with a short comment
(what does the functions do). I am thinking about something less "strict"
than libraries: for that, no reason to test the code (programmer's
responsability). Then, maybe sometimes there would be enough pieces of code
on a statistical subject to justify the creation of a library (still with
the mind: a library is a collection of tools designed to help on a precise
situation).

While I'm at it, it would also be nice to have a shared page on
screenshots/graphics. For sure, I really enjoy to use R to produce
wonderfull graphics. Not only would it be nice sometimes to show them, but
it would also be the occasion to demonstrate R possibilities for newcomers
(think on color graphics including mathematics). R would never have enough
publicity!

Eric


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Eric Lecoutre           Informaticien/Statisticien
Institut de Statistique                        UCL

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