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

[Philippe Grosjean]

Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> 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.

So, are you telling me that you put somehow the whole code of R in a 
*single* file and that you are happy browsing it that way??? Stop 
kidding, please :-O

PhG