R help - Mar 2009 - Which features would you like to see on the crantastic.org community portal?

Hi,

As some of you know, one of the R Projects ideas for GSOC 2009 is to
expand the crantastic.org portal. Some ideas for what should be done
is mentioned in Hadley Wickham's project description [1], others have
been briefly mentioned on this mailing list before. Undoubtedly,
however, there are many other good ideas out there that could be
implemented. Please suggest any ideas you might have for such a
package portal. The main focus, as I see it, is to make it as easy as
possible to find the package you are looking for, without knowing the
name of the package.

To facilitate both collection of ideas and voting to show which ideas
are most popular, I've setup an account at uservoice.com, available
from this URL: http://crantastic.uservoice.com/pages/general . No
signup is required to vote and/or add your ideas, so please go ahead.

Best regards,
Bj?rn Arild M?land
Would-be GSOC student

[1]: http://www.statistik.lmu.de/~eugster/soc09/#p1

> Hi,
>
> As some of you know, one of the R Projects ideas for GSOC 2009 is to
> expand the crantastic.org portal. Some ideas for what should be done
> is mentioned in Hadley Wickham's project description [1], others have
> been briefly mentioned on this mailing list before. Undoubtedly,
> however, there are many other good ideas out there that could be
> implemented. Please suggest any ideas you might have for such a
> package portal. The main focus, as I see it, is to make it as easy as
> possible to find the package you are looking for, without knowing the
> name of the package.
>
> To facilitate both collection of ideas and voting to show which ideas
> are most popular, I've setup an account at uservoice.com, available
> from this URL: http://crantastic.uservoice.com/pages/general . No
> signup is required to vote and/or add your ideas, so please go ahead.
>
> Best regards,
> Bj?rn Arild M?land
> Would-be GSOC student
>
> [1]: http://www.statistik.lmu.de/~eugster/soc09/#p1
I'm just providing a short update:

First of all, this project made it into GSoC - this means that I will
work full time on crantastic.org for three months this summer! I hope
to get to implement a lot of the great ideas that has been submitted.
It's also great that people keep adding ideas to
http://crantastic.uservoice.com/pages/14786-general , and also take
the time to vote on the ideas they like the most. We're not far away
from actually getting new features published to the site
(http://crantastic.org/) - a bunch of stuff is already implemented in
the development branch [1].

We're currently in the process of setting up a blog which will be used
to provide progress updates and status reports, etc. The URL will be
announced at a later stage.

Best regards,
Bj?rn Arild M?land

[1]: http://github.com/Chrononaut/crantastic/tree/master