[R] Wikibooks

[hadley wickham]

> Many (perhaps most?) questions on the list are easily answerable simply by
> checking existing R Docs (Help file/man pages, Intro to R, etc.). Why would
> a Wiki be more effective in deflecting such questions from the mailing list
> than them? Why would too helpful R experts be more inclined to refer people
> to the Wiki than the existing docs? Bottom line: it's psychology at issue
> here, I think, not the form of the docs.

I agree - and there's also a problem that until the wiki becomes
useful there's no point referring people to it, and because no one
visits it, it doesn't get better.

http://www.wikipatterns.com provides some good advice for getting a wiki going.

Hadley