[R] www.r-project.org

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Its not hard if you know what to do but if you don't then its a nuisance
to figure it out every time.

On 4/25/06, Gavin Simpson <gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 14:09 -0400, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> > On 4/25/06, hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > The R Web site is working fine. Even if it is not relifted from a long
> > > > time, it is functional. So, this is the point... and it should remain,
> > > > at least, as functional as it is.
> > >
> > > As an experienced user of the R website, this probably is true for
> > > you.  However, there are a number of confusing problems for new users
> > > of the site:
> > >
> > >  * how do you download R?
> > >  * how do you bookmark a specific page?
> > >  * what is that giant graphic on the home page?
> >
> > * can't get to contributed docs directly from home page
>
> Isn't Other > Contributed Documentation sufficient? Usability guidelines
> for websites suggest that you should have as few top-level menu items as
> possible, say 5-6 max... OK the R website is not like
> <insert_company_name>.com type website, but you wouldn't want to flood
> users with too many options up front.
>
> G
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