Dear List,

 

I'm aware that this has been brought up before (e.g.
<http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e6/help/09/03/7365.html>
http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e6/help/09/03/7365.html ;
<https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-March/190902.html>
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-March/190902.html), I couldn't
find anything recent on the topic, though.

 

After pondering all the pros and cons regarding the usefulness of a
rating/review system for R packages, don't you think it would make sense to
implement such a thing? Of course one could easily debate hours on how this
should exactly look like (quality vs. quantitiy/popularity and such), but
IMHO it would definitely be a start to have something like a simple version
Amazon's review system available. It would allow you to form at least an
initial opinion on purpose and quality of R packages before going at it. As
more and more packages pop up on CRAN, I think it'd be great to have such a
feature and that the time is ripe. 

 

Cheers,

Janko


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