Recommended Packages

Having just update to R 2.6.2 on my old Windows laptop I notice that the 
number of packages is growing exponentially and my usual approach of 
get-em-all may not be viable much longer. Has any thought been given to 
dividing "contributed" binaries into a recommended set, perhaps a couple 
of hundred, and the remained. That way one could install the recommended 
ones routinely and add in the others as required. Any comments?

Murray Jorgensen

Hi Murray,

What is one person's "recommended" set might not correspond with the
"recommended" set of another nor that of a third party.

Grouping contributed packages into topics or themes might be a more
appropriate classification, and to that end we have CRAN Task Views
(thanks to Achim Zeileis and Kurt Hornik and their band of merry
CTV-maintainers). There are some 15 of these views now available. Using
the tools in the ctv package a user can install these groupings of
packages. Do these Task Views meet, or go some way towards, your goal?

See:

http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/

HTH

G

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