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. -- http://fam-tille.de