Opened 15 months ago
Last modified 15 months ago
#67685 closed enhancement
Is it okay to add a few new tags? Like, for example, statistics (topic is mostly, R-related, but not exclusive to it) — at Version 1
Reported by: | barracuda156 | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
Component: | ports | Version: | 2.8.1 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
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Description (last modified by barracuda156)
Now we got math
tag, however I do not think it makes a good sense to use it for everything remotely related. I would even add more specific tags like bayesian
and economics
, for example. Say, while both general equilibrium or demand models are still math
(and science
, FWIW), someone looking for actual math (ex., numerical computations or abstract algebra) may not want to see those, while someone looking for econometrics stuff would prefer not to dig through ports like R-cgalMeshes
or standalone functions for fancy distributions. Using finance
is also problematic, there are tons of economics stuff which has nothing to do with finance. Etc.
Obviously, tags only make sense when there are some number of ports worth having those.
What everyone thinks? While right now I ask in connection with 3000+ R packages we got now, it is not restricted to R.
- S. For R, my idea was to provide a somewhat-full replacement for CRAN, which requires a lot of packages: unfortunately, R folks prefer to make every tiny thing into a separate package, and to have people actually interested to try Macports for R, we should offer what people may look for. (Say, what FreeBSD freshports offers is useless IMO – there are zero reasons why someone may prefer that over just installing from CRAN.)