R devel - Mar 2010 - Suggestion to add crantastic to resources section on posting guide

Under the "further resources" section I'd like to suggest the
following
addition :

*  http://crantastic.org/ lists popular packages according to other users 
votes. Consider briefly reviewing the top 30 packages before posting to 
r-help since someone may have already released a package that solves your 
problem.

Thats just a straw man idea so I hope there will be answer, or discussion, 
either way.

Matthew

I don't think we should be expanding the posting guide.  Its already
so long that no one reads it.  We should be thinking of ways to cut it
down to a smaller size instead.

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Matthew Dowle <mdowle at mdowle.plus.com>
wrote:
> Under the "further resources" section I'd like to suggest the
following
> addition :
>
> * ?http://crantastic.org/ lists popular packages according to other users
> votes. Consider briefly reviewing the top 30 packages before posting to
> r-help since someone may have already released a package that solves your
> problem.
>
> Thats just a straw man idea so I hope there will be answer, or discussion,
> either way.
>
> Matthew
>
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