On 10-Sep-11 10:19:54, soeren.vo...@uzh.ch wrote: > Hello, (how) can I download/re-retrieve/order previous R-** digest > volumes/issues to my mailbox for local browsing? Thank you, Sören
Taking as example the R-help digest: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/ for each month listed, you will see at the right-hand end of the lin a link to a g-zipped archive of the postings for that month. For example, for the current omonth September 2011 you will see: Downloadable version September 2011: [ Gzip'd Text 381 KB ] Click on the "Gzip'd Text 381 KB" and you can then download a file 2011-September.txt.gz You then need to unzip this (on Unix-likes, use 'gunzip'; I don't know what to do on Windows systems). Then you will have a text file 2011-September.txt which will consist of all the postings. These are in standard Unix MBOX format, i.e. each new message is begun with a line like >From rshepard at appl-ecosys.com Thu Sep 1 01:55:22 2011 immediately following a blank line (except for the first message in the file, where this line would be the first line in the file, with no preceding blank). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox Then, if you want to store these in a mailbox, you need to find out how to import Unix MBOX. For Unix-likes, again, this is no problem. You need a mail folder which is in MBOX format, and then simply either copy this file into it (if it is a new folder), or append the file to it (provided you first make sure that there is a blank line at the end of what is already there, as there should be). I believe Windows has provision for importing MBOX files. Hoping this helps, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@wlandres.net> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 10-Sep-11 Time: 11:57:13 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.