[R] Archieve of mails from R forum

[David Winsemius]

On Mar 27, 2013, at 12:18 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote:

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> On Mar 27, 2013, at 1:58 PM, Katherine Gobin <katherine_gobin at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Dear R helpers,
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>> Everyday I do receive many many mails from R forum and after some period of times, INBOX is filled with numerous mails. At times if for some period of time, I haven't accessed mails, it becomes difficult to keep track of mails and many times simply due to the volume (and owing to the lack of time due to office constraints), I have to simply delete the mails without opening them and I understand this is a huge loss.
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>> If in case I wish to refer to all the old emails that have been appeared in the R forum, where do I get these? Is there any list where I will get subject-wise of thread-wise archive of old emails? I understand that will be an ocean of quality information and one can learn a lot from these old mails and I don't need to keep track of my emails all the time.
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>> Kindly guide.
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>> Regards
>> 
>> Katherine
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> The official archives for R-Help are here:
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>  https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/
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> and these are mirrored in various locations, such as:
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>  http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch/
>  http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general
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> You can also search the archives for all R lists at:
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>  http://rseek.org/
>  http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/search.html

Sadly, the finzi.psych repository is no longer archiving rhelp and hasn't been doing so for several years.

>  http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/

I was glad you didn't link to Nabble, which is neither an archive and has been a portal for spam.

> My recommendation would be to set up a mail filter or rule (using r-help at r-project.org in the the sender and cc: address fields) so that the list e-mails are automatically moved from your main inbox to a folder just for these e-mails and you can then browse them as your schedule permits, rather than having them interspersed with other e-mails in the same location. I do this with a number of the R related lists and have a folder for each one to keep them separated. Most e-mail clients and/or online services have some type of filtering or rule configuration available to do this.
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> Regards,
> 
> Marc Schwartz
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA