Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Datasets.load

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was merge to R (programming language), per WP:ATD. Regarding, My encyclopedic purpose is to document the RStudio Addins functionality, please note that what you're describing is WP:HOWTO, which is not an appropriate reason for an encyclopedia article. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:20, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Datasets.load

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Minor software product, does not appear to be covered by reliable independent sources and thus fails WP:GNG. — Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 14:58, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 15:05, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 15:05, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I think that this software product can be considered of sufficient notoriety, it has over 2,000 downloads a months, putting it in the 9th percentile of most popular package, and it is also preinstalled by universities in their R environments (I included references for this). I would very much appreciate any suggestions on how to better make my case. --Aditisrinivasan (talk) 15:28, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A good option would be to rewrite R_(programming_language)#Packages as an alternative place to put a more concise summary of the information. — Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 16:34, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete This is a massively popular package. It's difficult to do much with R without using it. However, is that encyclopedic? I see little scope for an encyclopedia article here which could be any more than the same user material already available. Certainly the article as it stands makes no attempt to do any such thing. There is a little scope for discussion of the problem of loading wild datasets in general, and how the R world addresses this. Andy Dingley (talk) 16:13, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I will add a discussion on the problem of loading wild datasets, with a stronger reference to R_(programming_language). My encyclopedic purpose is to document the RStudio Addins functionality (I also edited the RStudio page), because I believe it is important functionality, especially for newer users. --Aditisrinivasan (talk) 07:49, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I added a section R datasets which explains the standard R handling of datasets and positions the package against that. --Aditisrinivasan (talk) 10:46, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. No sign of significant coverage in independent reliable sources, only a one-line mention in a single blog. (It simply isn't true that it's difficult to do much with R without it; it wasn't released until December 2016, by which time R was already one of the most popular statistics packages in the world. I can only think Andy Dingley is confusing it with something else..??) Qwfp (talk) 19:52, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed that R has been used a long time without it, at the same time, the number of R users has grown substantially since 2016, part of that is increased accessibility, perhaps mostly due to RStudio, that was also the impetus for writing this article, I also added a section on RStudio Addins to the main RStudio page. This is the encyplopedic purpose, to document this functionality, which is important to users and especially newer users with less experience with CLI. I agree that perhaps eventually it could be merged, but I would appreciate it if I could grow out the article a bit, and then perhaps eventually merge with others. --Aditisrinivasan (talk) 07:49, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

CoI notice, I am the author (of the package). If this article were to not be deleted, I would be happy to help improve the quality and make it of more general encyclopedic value. --Bquast (talk) 09:39, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Merge in reduced form to R (programming language). Clearly not notable on its own, but apparently important in the context of the programming language. Sandstein 11:12, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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