[R] mailing list for basic questions - preliminary sum up

[Gabor Grothendieck]

If the archives were placed on www.r-project.org then googling for

   whatever site:r-project.org

would find anything in them along with anything already on the
site.


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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:31:32 -0500 
From: Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu>
To: Pascal A. Niklaus <Pascal.Niklaus at unibas.ch> 
Cc: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> 
Subject: Re: [R] mailing list for basic questions - preliminary sum up 

 
 
On 12/16/03 16:09, Pascal A. Niklaus wrote:
>- In my experience even *very* basic questions *relating to the R
>language* do get answered on r-help. I'm impressed by how much time some
>members of the R core team spend answering relatively basic questions,
>and by how elaborate their answers generally are. So I cannot see much
>need for a new R mailing list. There are these excellent mailing list
>archives, so why "fragment" this list?

Yikes! I now realize that my initial support of the idea for the
list must be qualified considerably. If this list is started,
its archives become quite important. Who will do that? And will
I have the time/energy/inclination to incorporate it into my own
search database? I'd rather not have one more thing to do. But
if the list gets off the ground - and it seems already at least
close to the end of the runway - I'll have to do it eventually in
order to have a complete archive.

Jon
-- 
Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
R page: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/

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 --- On Tue 12/16, Jonathan Baron < baron at psych.upenn.edu > wrote:
From: Jonathan Baron [mailto: baron at psych.upenn.edu]
To: Pascal.Niklaus at unibas.ch
     Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:31:32 -0500
Subject: Re: [R] mailing list for basic questions - preliminary sum up

On 12/16/03 16:09, Pascal A. Niklaus wrote:<br>>- In my experience even *very* basic questions *relating to the R<br>>language* do get answered on r-help. I'm impressed by how much time some<br>>members of the R core team spend answering relatively basic questions,<br>>and by how elaborate their answers generally are. So I cannot see much<br>>need for a new R mailing list. There are these excellent mailing list<br>>archives, so why "fragment" this list?<br><br>Yikes!  I now realize that my initial support of the idea for the<br>list must be qualified considerably.  If this list is started,<br>its archives become quite important.  Who will do that?  And will<br>I have the time/energy/inclination to incorporate it into my own<br>search database?  I'd rather not have one more thing to do.  But<br>if the list gets off the ground - and it seems already at least<br>close to the end of the runway - I'll have to do it eventually in<br>order to have a complete archive.<br><br>Jon<br>-- <br>Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania<br>Home page:            http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron<br>R page:               http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/<br><br>______________________________________________<br>R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list<br>https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help<br>