[pkg-bioc] R statistics aggregator thread

[elw at stderr.org]

> | Dirk, can I safely assume that your content is up for grabs?
>
> Sure thing.

thanks.

> | 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.

Probably a good idea, ya.  Will generate some sort of form letter for FYI 
purposes in a few minutes.

> Planet already looks good with all the BioC stuff. Didn't know they had 
> feeds!!

I didn't either - but I'm glad to have found that.  I'd like to see some 
feeds from the main bioconductor site, but that's a different line of 
begging that deserves to be done ;-)

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

I went and found them - thanks for the hint.

> | 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.

I went digging a bit - Windoze-based, and appears to mostly just be an 
aggregation of available binaries into one larger suite. 
[Mysql+R+TinnR+Python IDE+ a few other things...]


> 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.


That would be fantastic.


BTW, I did get approval (under the guise of, "Um, we need this 
infrastructure here - it makes it easier to do our research" -- sometimes 
more and sometimes less than the truth..) for a hostname to host a cran 
mirror at IUB.  I just have to get time to put it together....


> | > 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,

no problem.


> | > 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.

thanks.

--elijah