[R] Packages - a great resource, but hard to find the right one

[Mike Prager]

"hadley wickham" <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:

> Which moves somewhat back towards my original suggestion of review
> articles.  To me, an article which compared and contrasted four or
> five packages on a given topic would be much more useful than an
> article which reviewed only a single package.  I think basing reviews
> around a specific topic/methodology would be more useful than basing
> them around a single package.

I agree: Such articles would be welcome resources if published
either in JSS or in R-News.

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Mike Prager, NOAA, Beaufort, NC
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