Johannes Hüsing wrote

> > Above all there are lots of packages.  As the software editor of the
> > Journal of Statistical Software I suggested we should review R
> > packages.
>
> You mean: prior to submission?

No.

> > No one has shown any enthusiasm for this suggestion, but I
> > think it would help.  Any volunteers?
>
> Thing is, I may like to volunteer, but not in the "here's a
> package for you to review by week 32" way. Rather in the way that
> I search a package which fits my problem.

That's what I was hoping for.

> One package lets me down
> and I'd like to know other users and the maintainer about it.
> The other one works black magic and I'd like to drop a raving
> review about it. This needs an infrastructure with a low barrier
> to entry. A wiki is not the worst idea if the initial infrastructure
> is geared at addressing problems rather than packages.

We should differentiate between rave reviews of features that just  
happened to be very useful to someone and reviews of a package as a  
whole.  Both have their place and at the moment we don't have either.

If you are willing to review an R package or aspects of R for JSS  
please let me know.

Antony Unwin
Professor of Computer-Oriented Statistics and Data Analysis,
Mathematics Institute,
University of Augsburg,
Germany
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