Indeed, when I was writing code in Java or VBA and I needed code, say to buble sort or invert a CDF, I could find many examples on the web since the user base was so large. R has something better: CRAN. It was really smart to make a central repository where useRs can share code. No other language that I can think of really has an equivalent. All I have to do it search CRAN and I can find 99% of what out there (I'm making a guess on the actual number here).
Besides, I don't need to write bubble sort routines anymore because almost everything I need is already built into R. On 3/7/06, Liaw, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Dirk Eddelbuettel > > > > On 7 March 2006 at 10:55, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > > | I have given up on "R" with any topic on Google quite some time ago > > | (because bits from fragmented postscript/pdf files show up, for > > | example) - but using "r-devel" with topic normally gives me enough. > > | YMMV. > > > > Nobody seems to have mentioned the RSiteSearch() function > > which automagically restrict the search to domains relevant > > to the contect of "our" use of the letter R. I quite like > > that as I tend to have an R prompt open when I am puzzled by > > R questions ... > > My guess is that people were hoping to find things outside of what Jon > made > available or what's on or linked from www.r-project.org. I believe that's > not going to be very productive (at least for now). I don't think there's > a > whole lot of things related to R that isn't found in those two places. > > Andy > > > Dirk > > > > -- > > Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. > > -- Thomas A. Edison > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
