[pkg-bioc] R statistics aggregator thread

[elw at stderr.org]

Status update.

I've now written to both Chris Lawrence and Simon Jackman asking 
permission to aggregate their content.

Dirk, can I safely assume that your content is up for grabs?

My own blog needs serious rework (e.g. a categories system) before I dare 
shunt it into a planet-r situation.  Pending.

I don't think there's much reason to ask explicit permission from either 
the R wiki or from the Bioconductor Project Working Papers site; I guess 
my feeling is that personal sites deserve a lot more careful handling than 
corporate or organizational-level RSS feeds do.

I've removed the "open source analytics" site from the config, as I 
couldn't find contact information for the blogger himself - just for the 
DecisionStudio people he apparently works for (who have an R-based 
product, that is GPL, that I wish I had time to investigate right now).

--e


On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, elw at stderr.org wrote:

> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:10:42 -0500 (CDT)
> From: elw at stderr.org
> To: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
> Cc: pkg-bioc-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org,
>     Steffen Moeller <moeller at inb.uni-luebeck.de>
> Subject: Re: [pkg-bioc] Improving on our shared repository?
> 
>
>
> I've put up a start at http://planetr.stderr.org/
>
> I've not yet put any effort into contacting the folks whose feeds are being 
> aggregated, to ask permission; that needs to be done pretty soon.
>
> Any suggestions that any of you want to put forth are welcomed.  I don't have 
> a lot of time invested in the template used, and would actually appreciate it 
> if someone with better aesthetic sense took a stab at a custom CSS file - if 
> I do it, it *will* be pretty ugly. ;-)
>
> At any rate - this is a start on something.
>
> I'd like to have 15-20 active feeds in the thing before kicking it toward the 
> r-core folks and asking for a dns alias into r-project.org's namespace.
>
> Dirk, I tried to track down an RSS feed for Philippe - not much luck.  Do you 
> have something you had in mind?  sciviews.org doesn't seem to have much in 
> the way of rss...
>
> Does anybody have a close enough relationship with Jan deLeeuw to perhaps beg 
> him to RSS-enable JoSS?  :-)  That would be fantastic.  Same sort of idea, 
> applied to the R News / newsletter, would be great too.
>
>
> --elijah
>
>
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:13:35 -0500
>> From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
>> To: elw at stderr.org
>> Cc: pkg-bioc-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org,
>>     Steffen Moeller <moeller at inb.uni-luebeck.de>
>> Subject: Re: [pkg-bioc] Improving on our shared repository?
>> 
>> 
>> On 20 June 2007 at 15:09, elw at stderr.org wrote:
>> | While I'm at it...
>> |
>> | if any of you have recommendations for blogs that deal with R or stats,
>> | and can put me in contact with those bloggers, I'd appreciate it.  I'm
>> | working on putting together a "planet R" kind of site... and it will need
>> | content. ;-)
>> 
>> Yes please!!!
>> 
>> I (very informally) made the same suggestion at useR last yeat noticing how 
>> I
>> blogged from there. I talked to two guys about it -- one of them was Simon
>> Jackman, who as a Mac user has a very fancy and good looking blog at his 
>> site
>> (google him, he's a pol science prof at Stanford).  The other one may have
>> been Philppe Grosjean, but I am no longer sure.  The only other R blogger I
>> can think of is Debian maintainer and wandering pol scientist Chris 
>> Lawrence
>> (http://blog.lordsutch.com) but you have to tolerant of raving political
>> rants if you go there :)
>> 
>> Kidding aside, we could really do with a planet R.
>> 
>> Dirk
>> 
>> 
>