[R-wiki] [Fwd: The results of your email commands]

Frank E Harrell Jr f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu
Thu Feb 2 20:59:24 CET 2006


Ben Bolker wrote:
>  [I keep sending to r-sig-wiki-requests by accident! Sorry]
> 
>     > cookbook/examples and ask the group to consider splitting data
>     > manipulation examples from analysis examples.  Data manipulation
>     > resources are sorely needed by many users.
>     >
>     > Frank
>     >
>     >
>        I'm not sure I like the structure of the "snippets" section;
>     I think I would prefer to collapse it.  This is in keeping
>     with Tony Plate's "broader, not deeper" argument and my
>     "don't break things up too much".
>        We all have different ideas about categories, but most
>     of the categories in snippets would seem (to me) to go
>     into one big section arranged more or less as "tips" now
>     is ("tips", shorter 'recipes' from "cookbook", "faq",
>     shorter "examples", "surprises", shorter "notes"), OR
>     into the "tutorials" section (longer "cookbook" and "examples" and 
> "notes")
>       as for data manipulation, there is a subsection under
>     "tips" for "data manipulation" (conceivably one could promote
>     it to a section?) -- is that enough?
> 
> 
>   Ben Bolker

I think that's enough, just think that Data Manipulation should be 
promoted to a section.

Frank

> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Subject:
> Re: [R-wiki] R Wiki structure - level 1 & start page
> From:
> Ben Bolker <bolker at zoo.ufl.edu>
> Date:
> Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:30:23 -0500
> To:
> Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu>
> 
> To:
> Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu>
> CC:
> r-sig-wiki-request at r-project.org, Philippe Grosjean 
> <phgrosjean at sciviews.org>
> 
> 
> 
>> I like this design and just wish to emphasize the importance of 
>> cookbook/examples and ask the group to consider splitting data 
>> manipulation examples from analysis examples.  Data manipulation 
>> resources are sorely needed by many users.
>>
>> Frank
>>
>>
> 
>   I'm not sure I like the structure of the "snippets" section;
> I think I would prefer to collapse it.  This is in keeping
> with Tony Plate's "broader, not deeper" argument and my
> "don't break things up too much".
> 
>   We all have different ideas about categories, but most
> of the categories in snippets would seem (to me) to go
> into one big section arranged more or less as "tips" now
> is ("tips", shorter 'recipes' from "cookbook", "faq",
> shorter "examples", "surprises", shorter "notes"), OR
> into the "tutorials" section (longer "cookbook" and "examples" and "notes")
> 
>  as for data manipulation, there is a subsection under
> "tips" for "data manipulation" (conceivably one could promote
> it to a section?) -- is that enough?
> 
>   Ben
> 
> 
> 
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Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University



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