[R] Wikis etc.

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Sat Jan 7 17:14:48 CET 2006


Jonathan Baron wrote:

> On 01/07/06 10:51, John Sorkin wrote:
> 
>>The situation
>>would be greatly helped if the mailing list would automatically add a header or
>>footer to all Email messages giving the URL of the archived Email threads. Don't
>>expect people to know that what are not told! Those people who, in their answers,
>>suggest that people should search the archives should include the URL of the archives
>>in their response (http://carn.us.r-project.org then click on the word SEARCH in the
>>left-hand column ).
> 
> 
> Or, more tersely, http://cran.r-project.org/search.html.


But then, everybody loads stuff from CRAN master and does not use an 
appropriate mirror.
I'd like to suggest *not* to use any mirror URL explicitly in R-help 
mails (always, not only related to this thread).
In this case, I'd propose to write something like "CRAN-mirror/search.html"

Uwe



> http://cran.us.r-project.org/search.html is a mirror, and there
> are other mirrors.
> 
> Jon




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