Who does develop the R core and libs, and how / where is it hosted?
On Jan 14, 2013, at 7:55 PM, Oliver Bandel wrote:
Am 15.01.2013 um 01:11 schrieb Brian Lee Yung Rowe <rowe at muxspace.com>:
On Jan 14, 2013, at 6:32 PM, oliver <oliver at first.in-berlin.de> wrote:
BTW: I looked up the string "wish list" in some of the mentioned docs (mentioned in this thread)
but did not found it.
Can you please point me to it directly?
Googling for "R wish list" brings me links to a producer of toys.
Or did you mean I should ask R users for their wishes??!
(Some R users - on this list - asked for Julia language as a speedup alternative for R a while ago?)
Is this what you're looking for: http://developer.r-project.org/ (see TODO lists)
Ah, yes,there are TODO lists, thanks. This is at least some kind of thing yi was looking for. But these are personell TODO lists. Are their any goals for R as whole project?
All in all it seems like no special things need to be done. The FSF for example has a page where they ask for support in certain areas, so, this looks rather urgent. R seems not to have such urgent needs for support....
How about cleaning up some of the documentation/wiki pages?
I'm not a friend of seperating design, coding, documentation, ... IMHO this should be something that is not seperated. And I also think, that the way, R packages will be written (code as well as documentation together) uses the same kind of philosophy. I was very happy about this close relation between code and documentation,mthat is necessary to wrte a package. I thought the same holds true for R project as a whole. So I maybe was wrong with this assumption.
Actually, it does hold true - all R documentation is part of the R sources. Maybe it's a sign of a relative maturity of R that we don't have a particular "milestone"-like agenda. Typically, most things can be supplied as packages - the only reason to touch the core of R itself is if it is something that cannot be done as a package, and given R's modularity that is fortunately not very often the case. Cheers, Simon