[R] Problems in Recommending R

[Tobias Verbeke]

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 ;-)

Apart from making life easy for command line junkies,
plain HTML is also very search engine friendly.

Best,
Tobias