[R-wiki] Top level organization

[Ben Bolker]

Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> This is looking very good.  

   definitely agree.  I think we may eventually want
to tweak the categories in Tips&tricks, but we're getting
to the point now where we'll need to let some material
accumulate before we can really decide on the best
arrangement.

A few comments:
> 
> - what is the difference among Manuals, Cookbooks and Tips and Tricks.
> Its not clear to me.

    Manuals and "cookbooks" are longer and by a single or a few authors;
tips and tricks are shorter and more collaborative (I've tried to
clarify a little bit by adding a few short descriptions to
"start2").  That said, I think the subdivision within "Guides"
(which is a fine category heading) could use a little polishing/
explanation. [e.g. I might add a "Field-specific" category]
Phillippe, perhaps (in your copious spare time :-) ) you could
give slightly longer descriptions of how you envision the sections
within "Guides" and we could work from there?

> - Translations sounds like different spoken languages such as French,
> German, etc.  Maybe this could read something like this: Guides
> to R for users of Matlab, Octave, Stata and other packages.

   you'll see this is now changed.
   (is there a single source anywhere for non-English-language
R resources? there is a section in other-docs.html on R-project;
a few non-English books in doc/bib/R-books.html; a fairly hefty
set of contributed non-English docs in other-docs.html on CRAN
(!! different from other-docs.html on R-project !!); translation
information at developer.r-project.org/Translation.html and ... 
TranslationTeams.html; some info in the R Installation and
Administration manual ...)  Perhaps there should be *another*
Translation page under "Getting started" ... ????

   cheers
     Ben


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