[R] Wikibooks

[John Sorkin]

I think we occasionally think that it is very easy to get information because we know how to find the information. This does not mean that other people know how to find the answer. It is for this reason that questions appear on the listserver that we might think could be easily found from other sources.
John 

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>>> "hadley wickham" <h.wickham at gmail.com> 3/29/2007 7:47 PM >>>
> 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

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