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drat repository for nightly builds of ropensci packages and common dependencies
http://packages.ropensci.org/
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Create a pretty landing page #1

Open cboettig opened 9 years ago

cboettig commented 9 years ago

The index.html is pretty retro at the moment: http://packages.ropensci.org/ (Just a vanilla pandoc conversion of the README from this repo).

Might be nice to have something more integrated with the ropensci web design, like http://ropensci.org/packages. Not sure if that page is computed programmatically using ropkgs (@sckott?) but something like that would be cool, and could be updated automatically very easily by the nightly builds we already do on CircleCI for the drat repo.

Maybe something more basic would be to at least include a table of the current packages/versions available on drat; perhaps along with download stats and some overall summary stats (once we have enough data); e.g. OS, region, etc.

sckott commented 9 years ago

/packages page is completely manual - IMHO, would like to some day have a packages page that uses our ropensci API to get live data, anyway...

do you want to match ropensci.org style? or just prettier in general

cboettig commented 9 years ago

All of the above I think. Could be a drop-in replacement for ropensci.org/packages, but ideas welcome

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richfitz commented 9 years ago

See https://github.com/richfitz/drat.builder/commit/d4d276bba21bc2cb2b1266200fa8e7b84a8112bc for possible approach towards this.

cboettig commented 9 years ago

cool, thanks! Feel free to push changes or issues to this repo as well if you have ideas about improving the drat stuff. I think I still need to deploy the final step in the automated download stats collection too