[R] Problems in Recommending R

[stephen sefick]

I offer my time in this particular pursuit.  Although, the website is
functional and I wonder if statisticians and other scientists care
about the aesthetics of the website.  R is incredibly useful to me,
and until this conversation I didn't even realize that the website was
a little old school, but I may be an outlier.  Because it is useful-
spartanic, I believe, was used earlier and I agree.  However, if the
group thinks it would be a useful pursuit then I will help any way
that I can.

Stephen Sefick

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Ajay ohri <ohri2007 at gmail.com> wrote:
> yes html and css can be pretty.
> the point is if we can do so much collective and individual  work in
> suggesting,creating,maintaining much more complex codes- how much time would
> it take to replace the html of the home page....?
>
> hmm ..........
>
> who decides to create the Official 2009 Website Design Contest is now open
> for entries ....?
>
>
>   - submit html and css only pages by such and such date...
>
>
>   - winners choosen by vote among common public....and judges and fans and
>   media
>
>
>   - award /prize is mention and hyperlink (nofollow tag) and bragging
>   rights and free lodging and tickets to the annual R conference and  extra
>   credits for passing the dissertation exam and A in Stats 303 and sip of
>   vintage beer /wine /schnapps/vodka. and ..
>
>
> regards,
>
> Ajay
>
>
> Samuel Goldwyn  - "I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like
> it."
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:45 PM, <friedrich.leisch at stat.uni-muenchen.de>wrote:
>
>> >>>>> On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 18:14:03 +0530,
>> >>>>> Ajay ohri (Ao) wrote:
>>
>>  > Plain HTML coding is simple enough for this list ( I think)...but
>> aesthetic
>>  > design....hmm
>>
>> In most cases one can do more than most think using HTML and CSS: Our
>> universities corporate design was done by "professionals" and is backed
>> by a CMS:
>>
>>  http://www.uni-muenchen.de
>>
>> Our dpertment didn't want to use the CMS, so we emulated it using
>> HTML, CSS and iframes:
>>
>>  http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/
>>
>> which is *much* more convenient to maintain for us: I have a copy of
>> my page on my laptop, I can work on it while offline on a train, etc.
>>
>> I don't want to discuss whether the above examples are aesthetic or
>> not (we are required to follow the coporate design, so have no
>> choice). The main point I want to make is: that everything is static
>> HTML makes life very easy for command line junkies like me ;-)
>>
>> Best,
>> Fritz
>>
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-- 
Stephen Sefick

Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are
so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
make us feel like gods.  We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
annoying little problems of being mammals.

								-K. Mullis