Hi Dirk,

I wish to emphasis that I came across PlanetR over a year ago,
but completely forgot it existed when working on R-bloggers. Also, when I
contacted the bloggers about this idea, non of them actually wrote to me
about it (which makes me feel better about not remembering it). I apologies
if setting up R-bloggers seems like trying to "compete" with PlanetR, this
at all wasn't my intention.
Yet, now that my website is up, I hope it will be of use and here
are several ways in which (at hindsight) I can say it has something to
offer:

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.
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.
3) In PlanetR, one can only view (about) 5 days back and no more (R-bloggers
allows viewing of much more then 5 days back).
4) R-bloggers allows searching inside the content, PlanetR doesn't.
5) R-bloggers allow one to get e-mail updates, PlanetR doesn't.
6) R-bloggers offers "related articles", PlanetR doesn't.

I see R-bloggers <http://www.r-bloggers.com/> as a "news site" based on the
R bloggers, and I can't say the same about PlanetR for the reasons I gave
above.


With much respect to you Dirk,
Tal






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On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> wrote:

>
> On 5 December 2009 at 21:38, Tal Galili wrote:
> | R-Bloggers.com hopes to serve the R community by presenting (in one
> place)
> | all the new articles (posts) written (in English) about R in the "R
> | blogosphere".
>
> But how is that different from
>
>      http://PlanetR.stderr.org
>
> which has been doing the same quite admirably for years?
>
> Dirk
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