Peter Muhlberger wrote: > But, there is a second point here, which is how difficult it > was for me [...] to find what seem to me like standard & key > features I've taken for granted in other packages.
There is another side to this. Don't consider only how difficult it was to find what you were looking for; also remember to be _glad_ that there are so many packages and features to choose from. IMHO, the benefit of having a lot of packages dwarfs all the efforts needed to locate the right ones. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter > Muhlberger > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:44 PM > To: Achim Zeileis > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [R] Wald tests and Huberized variances (was: A > comment about R:) > > > Hi Achim: Your reply is tremendously helpful in addressing > some of the > outstanding questions I had about R. The 'econometrics view' > materials look > exactly like what I needed. Many thanks! > > But, there is a second point here, which is how difficult it > was for me, as > someone just becoming more familiar w/ R's more basic > capabilities (in the > past I've focused on features like optim, sem), to find what > seem to me like > standard & key features I've taken for granted in other > packages. I looked > high & low in my existing installed packages for the standard > version of R, > I googled, I looked in the r-help archives, I looked through > several manuals > / introductions to R I had downloaded. I've asked questions > about all of > the points I raised in my email on this email list before. I > believe I > passed through the parent directory for the econometric view > material at the > website w/o realizing what it contained because I thought of > "computational > econometrics" as having to do w/ running Monte Carlo models > of economic > processes. > > If R wants to bring in a wider audience, one thing that might > help is a > denser set of cross-references. For example, perhaps lm's help should > mention the econometrics view materials as well as other > places to look for > tests and procedures people may want to do w/ lm. Another > thought is that > perhaps the standard R package help should allow people to find > non-installed but commonly used contributed packages and > perhaps their help > page contents. A feature that would be very helpful for me > is the capacity > to search all the contents of help files, not just keywords > that at times > seem to miss what I'm trying to find. > > Cheers, > > Peter > > ______________________________________________ > [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
