From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-qtl. Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 02:52:21 +0200 Message-ID: <20150919005221.GA21426@thebird.nl> References: <55facbb7.XMIzNX9aIy6n26s1%pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> <87vbb9hsml.fsf@openmailbox.org> <20150918092333.GA18950@thebird.nl> <87fv2cvyxr.fsf@gnu.org> <20150918115115.GA19765@thebird.nl> <20150918140854.GA5145@debian> <20150918161501.GA20440@thebird.nl> <20150918165606.GA9239@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51254) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zd6Q9-0003mG-HC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 20:54:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zd6Q6-0003zX-BQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 20:54:29 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150918165606.GA9239@debian> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org I checked with the author and he is fine with your version. Personally I think it is clear from the name that it is an R package, so that may be superfluous. But then, who knows R ;) Pj. On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 06:56:06PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 06:15:01PM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > Well, unless someone comes up with a 'proper' description I don't > > think we'll get anywhere. Tell me what you want to see. We can't > > explain the whole field of genetics in one line. > > Well, I think the package author is the most qualified to write a > description :-) But let us break the cycle; I am ready to make a suggestion > that you as a specialist may easily improve, I suppose. > > Synopsis: > R package for analyzing QTL experiments in genetics > > I think it is good to have "R package" somewhere, and "genetics", which I > understand as a layman (and then I do not understand QTL, but that does not > matter since as you said, if I knew genetics, I would probably understand > QTL.) Hm, as a layman, "R package" is also not very understandable. > > So how about: > Analysis tools for genetic QTL experiments in the R statistics system > Too long! > > So: > Tools for genetic QTL experiments in the R system > > > Description: I think the point of critique was mainly that it should > consist of full sentences with a verb ("blabla is a foo" instead of "foo", > a minima). So maybe this: > > "R/qtl is an extension library for the R statistics system. It is used > to analyze experimental crosses for identifying genes contributing to > variation in quantitative traits (so-called quantitative trait loci, QTLs). > > Using a hidden Markov model, R/qtl allows to estimate genetic maps, to > identify genotyping errors, and to perform single-QTL and two-QTL, > two-dimensional genome scans." > > (With some inspiration from the fine web site, of course...) > > Andreas > --