[R] Connecting R-help and Google Groups?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:48:15AM -0400, Paul Lynch wrote:
> This morning I tried to see if I could find the r-help mailing list on
> Google Groups, which has an interface that I like.  I found three
> Google Groups ("The R Project for Statistical Computing", "rproject",
> and "rhelp") but none of them are connected to the r-help list.
> 
> Is there perhaps some reason why it wouldn't be a good thing for there
> to be a connected Google Group?  I think it should be possible to set
> things up so that a post to the Google Group goes to the r-help
> mailing list, and vice-versa.
> 
> Also, does anyone know why the three existing R Google Groups failed
> to get connected to r-help?  It might require some action on the part
> of the r-help list administrator.

As _existing_ alternative, consider Gmane.org. See the R FAQ for
details -- but a fair number of R lists a archive, gatewayed, ...
there already.

Dirk

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