[R-wiki] Gelman's comments about R tips vs Wiki

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On 4/23/06, Philippe Grosjean <phgrosjean at sciviews.org> wrote:
> Tony Plate wrote:
>  > [...] (see hereunder for full post)
>  > However, maybe this can be partially addressed by having larger index
>  > pages, each one pointing to many different small example pages. [...]
>
> Exactly! Speaking about "browsing" the tips, the key is not to have all
> tips on one page, but an index, table of content, summary, or
> whatever-you-call-it page. You browse that page and click on the links
> you want. This is more effective than browsing tens of thousands of
> lines to discover that the tips you are looking for is the forelast one,
> that is, the 9,999th one!
>

You want to browse the code itself, not just an index.  The way
you learn R is to look at a lot of code and not by having to waste
time jumping to dozens or hundreds of different pages.