[R] popular R packages

[hadley wickham]

> There was a discussion on this a while back in which Bill Venables
> said: "To me a much more urgent initiative [than rating responders on
> R listserves] is some kind of user online review system for packages,
> even something as simple as that used by Amazon.com has for customer
> review of books. I think the need for this is rather urgent, in fact.
> Most packages are very good, but I regret to say some are pretty
> inefficient and others downright dangerous.  You don't want to
> discourage people from submitting their work to CRAN, but at the same
> time you do want some mechanism that allows users to relate their
> experience with it, good or bad."

And you can see my initial attempts at this at http://crantastic.org.
Unfortunately I haven't had much time to work on it, and haven't had
much luck recruiting helpers.

Hadley

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