[R] newbie list

[Duncan Mackay]

Hello,
I think that in many cases, all a newbie (like myself) needs is some more
examples of the use of various functions to make their workings clear. Of
course, I wouldn't like to see the size of the documentation swell to
unmanageable proportions, but perhaps the docs could contain links to a
larger Web database or compendium of examples of the use of functions. There
was such a site called StatsRus but I haven't been able to access it
recently. Duncan
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Paul Gilbert
Sent: Thursday, 30 August 2001 3:11 AM
To: Peter Dalgaard BSA
Cc: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] newbie list


>> "PD" == Peter Dalgaard <BSA <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk>> writes:

PD> Although I appreciate the thought, I see some problems with what you

PD> suggest. In caricature, we could end up with newbies rewriting the
PD> documentation for each other ... incorrectly!

I wouldn't want or expect that. More likely I would expect one newbie
can often quickly give simple answers or point another newbie to the
correct place in the documentation.

PD> Most of the time where
PD> people get referred to the documentation it is actually because
there
PD> is no simple answer, or (at times) no easy way to lead people onto
the
PD> fact that computer languages have rules...

Perhaps there needs to be some mechanism for bumping some questions from
"newbie" to "help."

PD> One thing that has crossed my mind more than a few times is that the

PD> Tcl crowd use something called a Wiki which is a sort of multiauthor

PD> document (http://mini.net/tcl/) and I've been wondering whether we
PD> might have something similar for R. This structure might be useful
at
PD> the development level as well. Not that I don't have other things to

PD> do...

This sounds like something that would be useful for "devel" or "help."
What I had in mind for "newbie" was more like a chat room where a user
could ask simple questions to anyone that happened to be around. (A
replacement for the old days when everyone sat in the terminal room.)
Probably it should not even be archived.

Paul Gilbert

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