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), 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@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@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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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
> --
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> (home of 'Some hints for the R beginner'
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