[R] Feedback on you manual

[Gavin Simpson]

On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 23:18 -0700, 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?

As this is a Manual meant for circulation in several different formats
this is unlikely to happen. The (IIRC) texinfo source is processed into
pdf and html versions for you convenience. The html version is not the
main format for the manual.

Your browser has a search facility that you could use once directed to
that page as the result of a Google search.

> Indeed the tutorial of Weka is much better than R's, in my point of view.

This (the R manual) is not a tutorial. The Introduction to R document is
a manual. It serves a particular purpose.

You are free to provide your own manuals or tutorials if you wish.
Several members of the community have done just this, noticing that the
Introduction to R manual may not be the most useful resource for
different groups of useRs. You can find these user-contributed documents
here:

http://cran.r-project.org/other-docs.html

> And I can not find a enterance of references.

Not sure what you mean by enterance (?), but there is a references
section to the manual:

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html#References

Or did you have a different type of reference in mind?

G

> I appriciate it if you take my feedback seriously.
> 
> best,
> Liping Liu
> 
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