Rtips (was Re: [R] ? building a database with a the great examples

[Detlef Steuer]

On 02-Jun-2003 Paul E. Johnson wrote:
> Perhaps you want to start maintaining Rtips itself!  

Perhaps it is time to start a wiki for R?
For those not familiar with the idea of wikis look here:
http://www.wikipedia.org/ (incredible wiki encyclopedia)
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWiki (for a description of the mechanisms of
wikiwikis)

I just did a quick hack to set one up:
http://fawn.unibw-hamburg.de/cgi-bin/Rwiki.pl?RwikiHome

Any comments welcome!

If the community uses the site I promise to do what I can to keep it 
running.

Detlef

> 
> I don't have as much time for it as I used to.  I still think it is 
> valuable to have such a listing, but it is so hard to keep up to date 
> with R and I'm only doing minimal work to keep it up to date.  I'm 
> thinking of dropping altogether the section on packages because I just 
> can't keep up with the creativity of the R community.  I did most of 
> that list before Frank Harrell put up Hmisc and Design, you know.
> 
> The Rtips page is still up here:
> 
> http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/R/statsRus.html
> 
> The FaqManager software is starting to show its age, but it still works. 
>  If you want to be a contributor, I could assign for you a password on 
> that server.  
> 
> Also, I think it will work if you go to this other name I have created 
> for this same thing:
> 
> http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/R/Rtips.html
> 
> Some users write and ask me why I did not contribute this doc to the R 
> homepage, and I have no good answer except that in the beginning I did 
> not have enough stuff to make it worthwhile.  Since the content of Rtips 
> can change on a daily/weekly basis, it did not seem right to just make a 
> snapshot and email it over. But I'm open to suggestions.
> 
> Frank Mattes wrote:
> 
>> Dear R help reader,
>>
>> I'm not an expert in R and are lerning a lot by reading the help 
>> digest, which is sometimes difficult because the huge amount of data 
>> posted. I have posted some questions before, and  are impressed how 
>> quick I got a solution for my problem. Sometimes with quite different 
>> suggestions. I was always wondering if my questions didn't come up 
>> before. On the other site, it wasn't easy to search the help archive, 
>> purely I didn't know how to formulate my problem.
>> I'm wondering if we could not collect all the answers / examples in a 
>> database -
>> sorted in topics, like the help document "Rtips".
>> I have no clue if this is possible to do nor how time consuming the 
>> maintaining would be.
>>
>> This is just my view how the help list could be improved
>>
>> Yours
>> Frank
> 
> 
> 
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