[pkg-bioc] R statistics aggregator thread

[David Vernazobres]

Hi Elijah,
Cool for the stuff, and the template is not ugly at all. The template
would have been worth, if I would had to do it.


On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 06:12:15PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote :
> 
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. 
>                                                   -- Thomas A. Edison