On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Brook Milligan wrote:
- Other language-specific packages (e.g., perl and python) have packages scattered across categories so why should not R packages be organized along category lines? + Pros: consistency with pkgsrc organization generally + Cons: implementing this consistently requires moving existing R packages to new categories
There's enough prior art there to put the R packages where their functionality lies, i.e. don't keep them in 'math'.
- Hubert