I am a fan of wiki's and I reckon it would really help with making R more accessible. On one extreme you have this email list and on the other extreme you have RNews and the PDF's on CRAN. A wiki might hit the spot between them and reduce the traffic on the email list.
Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: > I feel that as long as people continue to provide help on r-help wikis > will not be successful. I think we need to move to a central wiki or > discussion board and to move away from e-mail. People are extremely > helpful but e-mail seems to be to always be memory-less and messages get > too long without factorization of old text. R-help is now too active > and too many new users are asking questions asked dozens of times for > e-mail to be effective. > > The wiki also needs to collect and organize example code, especially for > data manipulation. I think that new users would profit immensely from a > compendium of examples. > > Just my .02 Euros > > Frank ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html