Only or the record: There is a wiki for R in general, used by only but a few people, annouced here some year(s) ago: http://fawn.unibw-hamburg.de/cgi-bin/Rwiki.pl
The question is: one or more wikis? Detlef On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 20:35:17 +0100 Philippe Grosjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Forrest wrote: > > [...] > > Any volunteers? > > Yes, me (well, partly...)! Here is what I propose: this is a very > lengthy thread in R-Help, with many interesting ideas and suggestions. I > fear that, as it happens too often, those nice ideas will be lost > because of the support used: email! By nature, emails are read and then > deleted (well, there is the R-Help archive, but anyway, threads in a > mailing list is not at all the best tool to make collaborative documents > like those tutorials and co). > > I just cooked a little Wiki *dedicated to R beginners* (meaning they can > contribute too, and are very welcome to discuss their problems -possibly > trivial for others-). It is available at > http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/wiki. For the moment, everyone can edit > and add pages, but I will restrict rights in the future to logged users > only (with everybody allowed to log in at any time). So that we will be > able to track who made changes (authorship). > > For those who do not know the Wiki concept, it is a very simple way of > working together in the same documents. The concept has proven very > powerful with a good example being Wikipedia, that is becoming one of > the largest encyclopedia in the world... and also as accurate as > Encyclopedia Britannica (but read this: > http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html). > > Here is the introduction of the R (GUI) Wiki: > > This Wiki is mainly dedicated to deal with R beginners problems. > Although we would like to emphasize using R GUIs (Graphical User > Interfaces), this Wiki is not restricted to those GUIs: one can also > deal with command-line approaches. The main idea is thus to have > material contributed by both beginners, and by more advanced R users, > that will help novices or casual users of R (http://www.r-project.org). > > Overview > > * The various documents in the [[wiki section]] explain how to use > DokuWiki to edit documents in this site. > > * The [[beginners section]] is dedicated to... beginners (share > experience, expose problems and difficulties useful to share with other > beginners, or to get help from more advanced people). > > * The [[tutorials section]] is the place where you can put various R > session examples, or short tutorials on either general or specific use of R. > > * The [[easier section]] aims to collect together various pieces of R > code that simplifies various tasks (especially for beginners) and that > will ultimately be compiled in a “easieR” R packages on CRAN. > > * The [[varia section]] is for any material that does not fit in the > previous sections. > > > Final note: working with Wikis requires some learning... So, I am not > sure at all that many R beginners will contribute to this wiki, but, of > course, I hope so. Just let's pretend that it is a small experiment to > try answering requests for another Internet space than R-Help, > specifically dedicated to beginners... > > A good starting point would be the following: all people that expressed > interesting points in this thread could "copy and paste their ideas" to > new pages in the Wiki. > > Best, > > Philippe Grosjean > > ..............................................<°}))><........ > ) ) ) ) ) > ( ( ( ( ( Prof. Philippe Grosjean > ) ) ) ) ) > ( ( ( ( ( Numerical Ecology of Aquatic Systems > ) ) ) ) ) Mons-Hainaut University, Pentagone (3D08) > ( ( ( ( ( Academie Universitaire Wallonie-Bruxelles > ) ) ) ) ) 8, av du Champ de Mars, 7000 Mons, Belgium > ( ( ( ( ( > ) ) ) ) ) phone: + 32.65.37.34.97, fax: + 32.65.37.30.54 > ( ( ( ( ( email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ) ) ) ) ) > ( ( ( ( ( web: http://www.umh.ac.be/~econum > ) ) ) ) ) http://www.sciviews.org > ( ( ( ( ( > .............................................................. > > David Forrest wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > ... > > > >>In fact there are some things that are very easy > >>to do in Stata and can be done in R but only with more difficulty. > >>For example, consider this introductory session in Stata: > >> > >>http://www.stata.com/capabilities/session.html > >> > >>Looking at the first few queries, > >>see how easy it is to take the top few in Stata whereas in R one would > >>have a complex use of order. Its not hard in R to write a function > >>that would make it just as easy but its not available off the top > >>of one's head though RSiteSearch("sort.data.frame") will find one > >>if one knew what to search for. > > > > > > This sort of thing points to an opportunity for documentation. Building a > > tutorial session in R on how one would do a similar analysis would provide > > another method of learning R. "An Introduction to R" is a good bottom-up > > introduction, which if you work through it does teach you how to do > > several things. Adapting other tutorials or extended problems, like the > > Stata session, to R would give additional entry points. A few end-to-end > > tutorials on some interesting analyses would be helpful. > > > > Any volunteers? > > > > Dave > > ______________________________________________ > [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 ______________________________________________ [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
