R help - Jul 2013 - Appropriate forum for announcing R package updates

I have been confused about the appropriate e-mail address to use to make 
announcements to r-help for major package update.  In the past I've 
submitted to R-packages at lists.r-project.org without seeing the 
announcement appear on r-help.

Thanks for any guidance.
Frank

-- 
Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chairman      School of Medicine
                    Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University

On Jul 10, 2013, at 1:29 PM, Frank Harrell <f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu>
wrote:
> I have been confused about the appropriate e-mail address to use to make
announcements to r-help for major package update.  In the past I've
submitted to R-packages at lists.r-project.org without seeing the announcement
appear on r-help.
> 
> Thanks for any guidance.
> Frank


Hi Frank,

R-packages (https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages) should be the
correct list for those announcements.

A quick check of a few recent posts shows that they are being forwarded to
R-Help as well.

It is however a low volume list. 116 posts in 2010, 77 in 2011, 72 in 2012 and
25 so far in 2013. The trend would seem to be downward.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz