Hi Tal!

First let me say that I deeply appreciate the work that you're putting into
this.  You're doing good things for our community, and that's great!

I put the planet-R stuff together rather hastily a few years ago, as a way
of seeing whether it was of enough use for the community for
it to be something that the R project would want to provide as a standard
service offering.  ;)  At that moment in time, it seemed like a
slightly fringe thing to do, but I think the community has grown into it a
bit now.  There are a *lot* more R-related RSS feeds in the
ecosystem now than there were a couple or three years back.

Another aspect - a couple of years ago, we didn't have decent recommenders
for related feeds from things like Google Reader.  Nowadays,
once google finds an R-related feed, it starts to suggest it to me.  That's
very powerful, and I think the need for a centralized "planet"-style
site is somewhat reduced by it.

I'd strongly suggest that you make your site as community-oriented as
possible, probably by asking folks in the
community (like, say, Romain...) to help you run and administer the thing.
That will make it more like a community project, and
reduce the load on you personally.  I should have done something like that
with the planetr.stderr.org site long ago - as Dirk notes,
my cycle time for responding to mail and notes is a bit slow, and my time
budget for messing about with the site is also pretty amazingly limited.

As you note - there's not really much by way of contact information in the
planetr templates.  They're quite limited and quite unimpressive.  :)  But,
well, the amount of work that was required to get a "working" site up was
also incredibly small for me.

I'd be happy to see you harvest links out of planetr.stderr.org and add them
to your r-bloggers site - some of the links I've collected there are
institutional (journal feeds and the like) and should be possible to add
without any consultation.  For the individual bloggers, I'd suggest
contacting them to get permission to add their feeds - it just seems like
the polite thing to do.

Again, I want to thank you publicly for spending your time on this, and am
happy to see someone taking action to improve communication
and discussion across the R community of users and developers.  This
benefits us all, greatly!

Best, and be well,

--elijah


On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Tal Galili <tal.galili@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> >
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