Dear All, [ I was wondering if this should have gone to the new mailing list. Maybe. ] As some of you maybe know from my earlier posts, I am building a simple search engine for R packages. Now the search engine has a proper web site, where you can also browse CRAN packages. http://www.r-pkg.org/ As I see the value is in 1. package search (search box on top right) 2. APIs, see http://www.r-pkg.org/services It is in alpha version, meaning that things seem to work, some pages are a bit slow and there are a lot of glitches to fix. Please tell me what you think. Best, Gabor [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
G?bor Cs?rdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> writes:> Dear All, > > [ I was wondering if this should have gone to the new mailing list. Maybe. ] > > As some of you maybe know from my earlier posts, I am building a simple > search engine for R packages. Now the search engine has a proper web site, > where you can also browse CRAN packages. > > http://www.r-pkg.org/ > > As I see the value is in > 1. package search (search box on top right) > 2. APIs, see http://www.r-pkg.org/services > > It is in alpha version, meaning that things seem to work, some pages are a > bit slow and there are a lot of glitches to fix.I had a quick peek, and it looks really nice! I particularly think the github integration for diff-ing versions can be very use full! It might be an idea, to also add R itself to the github repo for diff-ing? Thanks a lot, Rainer> > Please tell me what you think. > > Best, > Gabor > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >-- Rainer M. Krug email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de PGP: 0x0F52F982 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 494 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/attachments/20150524/5f7f1776/attachment.bin>
On May 24, 2015 2:44 AM, "Rainer M Krug" <Rainer at krugs.de> wrote:> > G?bor Cs?rdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> writes: > > > Dear All, > > > > [ I was wondering if this should have gone to the new mailing list.Maybe. ]> > > > As some of you maybe know from my earlier posts, I am building a simple > > search engine for R packages. Now the search engine has a proper website,> > where you can also browse CRAN packages. > > > > http://www.r-pkg.org/ > > > > As I see the value is in > > 1. package search (search box on top right) > > 2. APIs, see http://www.r-pkg.org/services > > > > It is in alpha version, meaning that things seem to work, some pagesare a> > bit slow and there are a lot of glitches to fix. > > I had a quick peek, and it looks really nice! I particularly think the > github integration for diff-ing versions can be very use full! > > It might be an idea, to also add R itself to the github repo for > diff-ing?You'll find that at: https://github.com/wch/r-source Henrik> > Thanks a lot, > > Rainer > > > > > Please tell me what you think. > > > > Best, > > Gabor > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > -- > Rainer M. Krug > email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de > PGP: 0x0F52F982 > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> Please tell me what you think.I think it is awesome, just like the CRAN-github bridge. It would be cool if you provided CRAN authors with instructions on how to fork the CRAN-github clones of the source code so that I don't have to retarget pull requests ;-) In conclusion, keep up the great work Statistics is the grammar of science. Karl Pearson <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grammar_of_Science> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 7:02 AM, G?bor Cs?rdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:> Dear All, > > [ I was wondering if this should have gone to the new mailing list. Maybe. > ] > > As some of you maybe know from my earlier posts, I am building a simple > search engine for R packages. Now the search engine has a proper web site, > where you can also browse CRAN packages. > > http://www.r-pkg.org/ > > As I see the value is in > 1. package search (search box on top right) > 2. APIs, see http://www.r-pkg.org/services > > It is in alpha version, meaning that things seem to work, some pages are a > bit slow and there are a lot of glitches to fix. > > Please tell me what you think. > > Best, > Gabor > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Thanks for letting us know about the new website. Some comments: - Download statistics: Where are they from? CRAN does not monitor downloads generally, maybe some selected mirrors do. - Section "Recently updated" can only hold 9 packages, but frequently more than 9 get accepted even within an hour, hence not sure if this makes sense. - The links "Download R" and "CRAN homepage" point to a particular link of a mirror rather than the official pages. I'd appreciate if you do not link to selected mirrors. The R homepage on purpose links to http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html when pointing to CRAN. Best, Uwe Ligges On 24.05.2015 11:44, Rainer M Krug wrote:> G?bor Cs?rdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> writes: > >> Dear All, >> >> [ I was wondering if this should have gone to the new mailing list. Maybe. ] >> >> As some of you maybe know from my earlier posts, I am building a simple >> search engine for R packages. Now the search engine has a proper web site, >> where you can also browse CRAN packages. >> >> http://www.r-pkg.org/ >> >> As I see the value is in >> 1. package search (search box on top right) >> 2. APIs, see http://www.r-pkg.org/services >> >> It is in alpha version, meaning that things seem to work, some pages are a >> bit slow and there are a lot of glitches to fix. > > I had a quick peek, and it looks really nice! I particularly think the > github integration for diff-ing versions can be very use full! > > It might be an idea, to also add R itself to the github repo for > diff-ing? > > Thanks a lot, > > Rainer > >> >> Please tell me what you think. >> >> Best, >> Gabor >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >
One issue I have with this is that it doesn't point to the original GitHub repositories of the packages, so you end up with additional repositories on Github in Gabor's name that have nothing to do with the actual Github repositories of the packages. I understand that it's technically necessary, but I fear it will lead to a lot of confusion... On May 24, 2015, at 5:44 AM, Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de> wrote:> G?bor Cs?rdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> writes: > >> Dear All, >> >> [ I was wondering if this should have gone to the new mailing list. Maybe. ] >> >> As some of you maybe know from my earlier posts, I am building a simple >> search engine for R packages. Now the search engine has a proper web site, >> where you can also browse CRAN packages. >> >> http://www.r-pkg.org/ >> >> As I see the value is in >> 1. package search (search box on top right) >> 2. APIs, see http://www.r-pkg.org/services >> >> It is in alpha version, meaning that things seem to work, some pages are a >> bit slow and there are a lot of glitches to fix. > > I had a quick peek, and it looks really nice! I particularly think the > github integration for diff-ing versions can be very use full! > > It might be an idea, to also add R itself to the github repo for > diff-ing? > > Thanks a lot, > > Rainer > >> >> Please tell me what you think. >> >> Best, >> Gabor >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > > -- > Rainer M. Krug > email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de > PGP: 0x0F52F982 > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel