We (mainly the R core team) have been discussing the creation of another
R mailing list, with the goal to fill the gap between
R-help very high volume, with its great merits, but....
and
R-announce only for R important announcements (mostly R-core)
hence __MODERATED__ and *very* low volume, and hence
highly recommended for almost all users of R.
*** all messages are forwarded to R-help ***
In the past, several CRAN package authors have rightly felt that
they would like the announcement of a major update of a package
be a bit more prominent than the flood of messages on R-help but
(most of the time) they still weren't supposed nor granted to
use R-announce for this. This has been one main motivation for
this new mailing list:
R-packages o all messages forwarded to R-help
o moderated (i.e. not accepting posts by anyone),
but CRAN package authors (and others,
similarly qualified) can freely post without
moderator interaction {unless there's abuse}.
The corresponding (new) web page,
http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages/
now has
TITLE: R Packages & Extensions Announcements
DESCRIPTION :
A moderated board for announcements about contributed R packages
and similar R project extensions.
All messages are forwarded to R-help automatically, so please do
not subscribe to this list if you are subscribed to R-help.
For major announcements on the R project, see the R-announce
mailing list, instead.
And R-project.org's "Mailing Lists" web page will describe it
from tomorrow as
>> R-packages
>>
>> This list is for announcements as well, usually on the
>> availability of new or enhanced contributed packages (on CRAN,
typically).
>>
>> Note that the list is moderated. However, CRAN package
>> authors (and others, similarly qualified) can freely post.
>>
>> As with R-announce, all messages to R-packages are
>> automatically forwarded to the main R-help mailing list;
>> hence you should only subscribe to R-packages if you do not
>> to R-help.
>>
>> Use the web interface for information, subscription, archives, etc.
Amount of mail to expect: Of course, we don't know yet, but
I'd expect to see only a few messages per week.
Finally, just re-iterating the obvious:
o This is *NOT* a list for discussion, just announcements of extensions to R.
o Do only subscribe if you are *NOT* subscribed to R-help,
(but then, strongly consider doing it)!
For more info, subscription, etc, please use the URL above
Your R mailing list maintainer,
Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/
Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum LEO C16 Leonhardstr. 27
ETH (Federal Inst. Technology) 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND
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