Indeed, when I was writing code in Java or VBA and I needed code, say to
buble sort or invert a CDF, I could find many examples on the web since the
user base was so large.  R has something better: CRAN.  It was really smart
to make a central repository where useRs can share code.  No other language
that I can think of really has an equivalent.  All I have to do it search
CRAN and I can find 99% of what out there (I'm making a guess on the actual
number here).

Besides, I don't need to write bubble sort routines anymore because almost
everything I need is already built into R.




On 3/7/06, Liaw, Andy <andy_liaw@merck.com> wrote:
>
> From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
> >
> > On 7 March 2006 at 10:55, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> > | I have given up on "R" with any topic on Google quite some time ago
> > | (because bits from fragmented postscript/pdf files show up, for
> > | example) - but using "r-devel" with topic normally gives me enough.
> > | YMMV.
> >
> > Nobody seems to have mentioned the RSiteSearch() function
> > which automagically restrict the search to domains relevant
> > to the contect of "our" use of the letter R. I quite like
> > that as I tend to have an R prompt open when I am puzzled by
> > R questions ...
>
> My guess is that people were hoping to find things outside of what Jon
> made
> available or what's on or linked from www.r-project.org.  I believe that's
> not going to be very productive (at least for now).  I don't think there's
> a
> whole lot of things related to R that isn't found in those two places.
>
> Andy
>
> > Dirk
> >
> > --
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