[R] Feedback on you manual

[Patrick Burns]

Okay, I've been convinced of both
the feasibility and the desirability
of a pdf.  However, such a thing is
unlikely to appear very soon.

On 23/10/2010 20:23, 刘力平 wrote:
> Hi, all:
>
> My opinion is, provide a PDF tutorial is important, but not one web page
> containing everything.
>
>  From the perspective of end-user programming, most people will have a
> fast reading of your tutorial to get principles of R.  When they become
> working with R, they need come back often to search the detail they have
> seen but could not remember. Most end-users spend much time than reading
> the tutorial. So provide a tutorial easy to search is very important.
> They can search by going down with link tree, or by searching utility
> provide by website(like cplusplus.com <http://cplusplus.com>), or google.
>
> Even if the PDF file is better than the single long webpage, at least
> user could remember page number. Seldom can remember the exact position
> of scroll.
>
> best
> Liping Liu
>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 4:28 AM, Patrick Burns <pburns at pburns.seanet.com
> <mailto:pburns at pburns.seanet.com>> wrote:
>
>     No (and I have an excuse).
>     It is a tree of pages rather than a
>     single document.  My impression is
>     that a pdf needs to be linear.
>
>
>     On 23/10/2010 10:09, Liviu Andronic wrote:
>
>         (off-topic)
>         Dear Patrick
>
>         On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Patrick Burns
>         <pburns at pburns.seanet.com <mailto:pburns at pburns.seanet.com>>  wrote:
>
>             Perhaps 'Some hints for the R beginner'
>             http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/hints_R_begin.html
>
>         Do you provide a PDF version of this human-friendly introduction
>         to R? :)
>
>         Regards
>         Liviu
>
>
>             is closer to what you have in mind.
>             It includes links to other documents
>             that are possibly along the lines you
>             seek.
>
>             On 23/10/2010 07:18, 刘力平 wrote:
>
>
>                 Dear Sir/Madam:
>
>                 Great thanks for R project and you contribution.
>
>                 I am Liping Liu, a beginner of R. Recently, I use R
>                 much. I wish you could
>                 improve the manual by making it search engine friendly.
>
>                 The "Introduction to R" page is too long. I am often
>                 redirected to this
>                 page
>                 by goole, but I still can not find the content I need
>                 easily.
>
>                 Could you please make it a structured: one page
>                 concentrated on a small
>                 topic and all these pages linked together?
>
>                 Indeed the tutorial of Weka is much better than R's, in
>                 my point of view.
>
>                 And I can not find a enterance of references.
>
>                 I appriciate it if you take my feedback seriously.
>
>                 best,
>                 Liping Liu
>
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>
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>             and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible
>             code.
>
>
>
>
>
>     --
>     Patrick Burns
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>     (home of 'Some hints for the R beginner'
>     and 'The R Inferno')
>
>

-- 
Patrick Burns
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http://www.portfolioprobe.com/blog
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(home of 'Some hints for the R beginner'
and 'The R Inferno')