[R] newbie list

[Paul Gilbert]

I've sometimes thought it would be useful to have another mail list
called "no I haven't read the documentation but someone can save me a
lot of time," or perhaps just "newbie" for short. This can be very
useful for people just getting started in R and with school starting
soon I expect the help list may become overwhelmed. Of course, I think
that people should read all the documentation, but it can still be a
very difficult to get a quick answer to very simple questions.

I would suggest that this be advertised as a list where new users can
help one another and the experts monitoring the help list are (probably)
not listening. Thus simple/obvious/documented things can be asked
without fear of being (justifiably) chastised for not reading the
documentation. A chat room may be a better mechanism, but a mail list
can be added fairly simply.

Paul Gilbert

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