[pkg-bioc] R statistics aggregator thread

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Hi Elijah

On 28 June 2007 at 17:41, elw at stderr.org wrote:
| 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?

Sure thing.

| 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.

Heads-up would still be fine, I think.  Planet already looks good with all
the BioC stuff. Didn't know they had feeds!!  

Oh BTW that reminds, Omegahat an Rggobi both have RSS feeds. Do you have
those, else I send them.
 
| 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).

Didn't even see that.

On the prev post: 

| 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/

Super!

I guess I now need to put my money where my mouth is and code a watcher for
$CRAN/src/contrib/ that feeds into RSS about new packages etc.

Steffen/David:  Exactly how much code is in the CVS about 'updating package
state and comparing to db' ?  

| > 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...

Maybe my memory was faulty and it was someone else.  Sorry,

| > 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.

Good idea. I only met him once in meatspace. Just email him, I'd say.

Three cheers -- nice work.

Dirk

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