On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Ross Boylan wrote:
I haven't been following closely enough to know the purpose, but potentially every R package is (or could be imagined to be) is statistical.
Sure. But for instance I'm rather busy packaging r-surveillance
and other R tools for use in epidemiology. These will go to a
med-epidemiology package and do staticts under this topic. They
would be definitely missplaced in a science-statistics metapackage.
The other r-cran-* packages I ITPed are just preconditions and
while they perfectly fit in the science scope I see better chances
for categorisation than just trowing them all into the statistics
bin. For instance:
#512431: r-cran-sp -- GNU R classes and methods for spatial data
should go to science geography
#512069: r-cran-plotrix -- GNU R package providing various plotting functions
(it is ITPed as plotrix but should be renamed to r-cran-plotrix
if only ftpmaster whould tell me which way to fix this makes
them less work - currently they decided to stay silent at all
makes a minimum work for them :-()
I tend to put this into science-viewing because it is rather
related to creating nice diagrams than doing general statistics.
So I just wonder whether you see better categories than just
"statistics" if you see the list of tasks at
http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/
Kind regards
Andreas.
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