Dear Community, I'm interested in developing a package that could ease the command-line learning curve for new users. It would provide more detailed syntax checking and commentary as feedback. It would try to anticipate common new-user errors, and provide feedback to help correct them.
As a trivial example, instead of > mean(c(1,2,NA)) [1] NA we might have > mean(c(1,2,NA)) [1] NA Warning: your data contain missing values. If you wish to ignore these to compute a mean, use "na.rm=TRUE". I'm interested in any thoughts that people have about this idea - what errors do you commonly see, and how can they be dealt with? I have applied for funding for a couple of months of programming support for this idea, and will find out whether or not I get it later this month. Until then, I thought that it would be interesting to kick around some ideas for the sorts of changes that we could try. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Robinson Department of Mathematics and Statistics Tel: +61-3-8344-9763 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au ______________________________________________ [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
