special interest (was: [pkg-bioc] how to proceed?)

[elijah wright]

> I'm a chemometrician/molinformatician, so interested in CRAN in general, 
> and KEGG/RGraphviz and BioC in general.

our main use of R here is for information retrieval (PCA and SVD-heavy) 
and various sorts of social network analysis.  i'm trying to talk the 
visualization people into CEASING to do "arty" visualization and into 
doing MEANINGFUL statistical visualizations instead.  :)


stuff i've had my hands in lately:

RGraphviz
sna
matrix
mathgraph  (i think that's the package name?)
SparseM
graph
dynamicGraph
ROracle (i wish Oracle had a sane, redistributable set of client libs...
 	ROracle is *very* difficult to build.)
RPgSQL
DBI

etc etc etc.

we do have a population of bioinformatics and chemical informatics folk 
who take 'interesting' classes from us and so end up using our lab - but 
those people haven't really been asking for much by way of support, so I 
haven't had a chance to dig in yet.

--elijah

Indiana University Bloomington
School of Library and Information Science