[R] newbie list

[Jonathan Baron]

Although I initially liked the idea of reducing the burden on the
core team (however willingly they bear it) by having a separate
list for newbies, I now think, after reading some of this
discussion, that we have two other ways of serving the needs
described.

One is the contributed documentaion section of CRAN, which
contains many documents (including mine, but many others too)
with the kinds of examples that might be helpful to newbies.

The other is that people can start local and specialized groups.
For example, it makes sense for university courses that use R to
have their own email lists, and for groups of researchers with
special interests to form similar groups, perhaps locally within
a single institution, or perhaps more broadly.

Have such things happened with SPlus?  I suspect not, but R is
different because, in the long run, more students will get it
(because they can afford it), so (I hope) there will be more
newbies than SPlus ever had.

On the other hand, if these are not enough, and if a newbie list
were started, I would happily read it and try to contribute,
thinking of myself as an intermediate user who can solve most
newbie problems but not most of the problems now on this list.
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