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[Philippe Grosjean]

Dr. Duncan Mackay wrote:

>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

I agree. My idea is that writing R complements for statistics textbooks
everybody use should be the best approach for decreasing learning curve of
newbies. Personnally, I learned bases of R and R programming without asking
a single question to experts thanks to the well-known books MASS and its R
complement and with S programming. Of course, R complement for MASS was not
so difficult to write because MASS deals with Splus that is very close to R.
Nevertheless, I am shure R complements showing how to implement in R
analyses presented in some major statistical textbooks would be the best way
to teach newbies that already use these books. The key question is: who will
write these R complements... are there any volunteer over there?

All the best,

Philippe Grosjean


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