[R] Proposal for New R List: Criticism? Comments?

[Adaikalavan Ramasamy]

Just finished updating and installing new packages from CRAN and
BioConductor (including annotation data) and am happy to say that my R
has just exceeded the 1 GB mark.



On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 10:11, Jonathan Baron wrote:
> On 09/10/04 03:54, Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote:
> >There is another issue to be considered. Currently you need to have the
> >relevant packages installed before help.search() bring it up. My work
> >around this is to install all available packages just in case the
> >function I need is nestled in some non-standard packages. I also update
> >them rather frequently.
> 
> I do this too, at my search site (where "frequently"=monthly) and
> you can search functions only, and use Boolean search expressions
> and phrases.
> 
> But right now the entire set of packages takes about 885 meg (if
> I'm reading du correctly), which is less than my very modest
> collection of digital photos, and a tiny fraction of a 3-year-old
> standard hard disk.  In other words, it is no big deal to install
> all the packages if you have your own computer.
> 
> Jon