I think that a lot of posts on r-help are exactly of the form you suggest: "How do I do X?" Answer: "Use Y." (Or maybe, "Use Y. And next time RTFM." But so what. The answer is still there.)
Often, when the answer is not of that form, the question is unclear. In other cases, the questioner is apparently asking for general statistical advice, rather than which package to use. In sum, I don't think the new list is needed. I do not want to archive it. I think that, if a questioner fails to find an answer because the terms he would use do not happen to be indexed in help.search(), etc., then he has the option of using my search engine as a fallback, where it is likely that someone else has used his favored terms. Jon -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron R search page: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/ ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html