Thank you Randall very much for your help. I didn't know that this list was
completely unsuitable for this type of a question. I assumed this list
would be with reference to both teaching as well for students who need and
use R in their university courses. In any case, thanks for informing me
that this is a wrong list and I will post my other questions to some more
relevant list.


On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Bob <bob@statland.org> wrote:

>
> I am one of the people who lobbied for the creation of this list long
> ago.  I am not sure R is a great choice for a first course in
> statistics, but I thought that if someone chose to use it, then they
> and their students might need all the help they could get to make it
> easier for the class.  But right from the beginning, the bulk of the
> posts to the list were like this latest one quoted below -- questions
> about how to do something with R that has no obvious connection to
> pedagogy or to using R in a first course.  This means that those of us
> interested in the actual topic of this list get lots of off-topic
> messages, while those who post the messages reach only a small
> audience that may not be interested in their question.  Some off topic
> posts are answered, some ingnored, and some posters get redirected
> (even scolded) toward a more appropriate list.  I see only losers in
> this process.
>
> So my question is whether this list really serves any useful purpose,
> or does it just siphon off queries that should have gone elsewhere?
> Those who post those queries would be likely to get an answer, and get
> it sooner, if they posted to an appropriate list in the first place.
> My own answer is that this list is not useful at the present time.
> Possibly in the future more people will be interested in R for an
> introductory course and then they might be glad if this list were
> still alive, but so far...
>
> So I am wondering what others on the list think.
>
> Here's the official description of this list.
>
> Special Interest Group (SIG) on teaching statistics with R. The
> primary purpose of the group is to provide a forum where instructors
> using R in their statistics courses can share ideas, teaching
> materials, and experiences. One particular focus of the SIG is to
> provide helpful support to instructors new to R who are teaching
> introductory statistics courses populated with students with little
> experience in statistics, statistical software, and command line
> interfaces.
>
> Here is where most posts to this list really should have gone.
>
> R-help
>
>     The ?main? R mailing list, for discussion about problems and
>     solutions using R, announcements (not covered by ?R-announce? or
>     ?R-packages?, see above), about the availability of new
>     functionality for R and documentation of R, comparison and
>     compatibility with S-plus, and for the posting of nice examples
>     and benchmarks.
>
> Forwarded message:
> >
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I am a little new to R and the first problem I am facing is the dilemma
> > whether R is suitable for files of size 2 GB's and slightly more then 2
> > Million rows. When I try importing the data using read.table, it seems to
> > take forever and I have to cancel the command. Are there any special
> > techniques or methods which i can use or some tricks of the game that I
> > should keep in mind in order to be able to do data analysis on such large
> > files using R?
>
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