[R] Rating R Helpers

[hadley wickham]

A nice model might be http://www.workingwithrails.com/.

It also suggests other possible measures of authority:

 * member of R core
 * packages written by/contributed to
 * R conference attended/presented at
 * contributer to wiki

Hadley

On 11/30/07, Doran, Harold <HDoran at air.org> wrote:
> Since R is open source and help may come from varied levels of
> experience on R-Help, I wonder if it might be helpful to construct a
> method that can be used to "rate" those who provide help on this list.
>
> This is something that is done on other comp lists, like
> http://www.experts-exchange.com/.
>
> I think some of the reasons for this are pretty transparent, but I
> suppose one reason is that one could decide to implement the advise of
> those with "superior" or "expert" levels. In other words, you can trust
> the advice of someone who is more experienced more than someone who is
> not. Currently, there is no way to discern who on this list is really an
> R expert and who is not. Of course, there is R core, but most people
> don't actually know who these people are (at least I surmise that to be
> true).
>
> If this is potentially useful, maybe one way to begin the development of
> such ratings is to allow the original poster to "rate" the level of help
> from those who responded. Maybe something like a very simple
> questionnaire on a likert-like scale that the original poster would
> respond to upon receiving help which would lead to the accumulation of
> points for the responders. Higher points would result in higher levels
> of expertise (e.g., novice, ..., wizaRd).
>
> Just a random thought. What do others think?
>
> Harold
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