[R] Announcing a new R news site: R-bloggers.com

[Romain Francois]

On 12/05/2009 11:45 PM, Tal Galili wrote:
> Hi Romain,
> First - I'd like to say that you where one of the bloggers I wanted to
> e-mail and didn't get to it. I still remember our short session in useR
> 2009 where you showed me your plans for an R editor - I am still waiting
> to see it once it comes out.
>
> Regarding the rest of what you wrote, I'll reply to you in each section:
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Romain Francois
> <romain.francois at dbmail.com <mailto:romain.francois at dbmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On 12/05/2009 09:32 PM, Tal Galili wrote:
>
> 1) Planet R is limited (for years) to 26 feeds only, and I don't remember
> seeing it evolve to include (or allow inclusion) of new R blogs that came
> around.
>
> R: that's not quite true. If you send an email to the maintainer of
> planet R, he will add your feed (both my blog and r graph gallery was
> added this year for example).
>
> T:Thanks for the correction. Yet let's put this in context - I can't see
> on the planetR website (http://planetr.stderr.org/) any e-mail or link
> to contact. So for me, for example, I don't know how to add my own blog
> (What IS the e-mail of the maintainer ?)

Fair enough. Here is the r-help thread where it was announced.
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02/archive/104406.html

> 2) The feeds are of blogs and non blogs (such as wiki or cran updates). That
> makes finding "reading material" inside it very difficult, since the site is
> cluttered with a lot of "updates" from cranbarries and the wiki.
>
> R: I see this as a good thing. In the program i use to read planet R
> (thunderbird) you can filter out things you are not interested about.
>
> T: But Romain, both planetR and R-bloggers are not meant for you

What do you mean ?

except
> as a source for feeds. What you are saying is that you don't use the
> interface either website offers, which is exactly my point.
> R: I have requested to be added to yours anyway, might be good for my
> pagerank.
> T: Cool, I just added you.


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