The R Project for Statistical Computing

Website

Juan José Vidal AgustínUniversidad de Murcia // Binoid.com

We need a change.

• Actual website since ancient greeks times.

• New R users feel fear, they need a more friendly website

• R Marketing? What? Eh?

• Technical problems

• Scalabiliy and Maintainability

The only true wisdom is in knowing you must change R website.

Socrates quote

Technical Problems

• Obsolete Code (Framesets)

• No META Tags (SEO tends to zero)

• Very poor CSS

• Bad use of HTML

Complex Structure

• Highly dispersed Structure

• Difficult to migrate to R

• Guides

One Website to rule them all

• New User Interface (UI)

• Current problems solved

• Restructure Sitemap

Technologies involved

• Webby: An Ascii Alchemy Ruby Framework

• Ruby on Rails

Free Software / Libre Software

• Free Software GPL

• Source code : http://github.com/juanjo/rproject

• An early development

• Why? Why not?

I have a dream!

• Volunteers?

• New features

• Restructure sitemap

• Work together

Thanks!