A couple things: First, "Beginners' lists" never work. Beginners invariably can't read (cf. posting guidelines), so they will post to the "main" list anyway.
Second, I see some people prefer to receive email-lists of the topics, and others prefer to work via a webbrowser interface. I'd have to say the overwhelming popularity of StackExchange suggests the latter is a much bigger group. AFAIK it's possible to generate an RSS or possibly some sort of pure e-mail feed from SO but I don't know for certain, but in any case, the only question is whether r-help will die of lonliness. Nobody is suggesting it be shut down. I'll also point out that it's much easier to filter SO (by topic and by score) than r-help. Carl, the DataMungerGuru-accolyte -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Should-there-be-an-R-beginners-list-tp4681068p4681124.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.