I know nothing about Google Groups, but FWIW, I think it would be most unwise for R/CRAN to hook up to **any** commercially sponsored web portals. Future changes in their policies, interfaces,or access conditions may make them inaccessible or unfreindly to R users. So long as we have folks willing and able to host and maintain our lists as part of the CRAN infrastructure, CRAN maintains control. I think this is wise and prudent.
I am happy to be educated to the contrary if I misunderstand how this would work. Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Statistics South San Francisco, CA 94404 650-467-7374 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Lynch Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 8:48 AM To: R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] Connecting R-help and Google Groups? This morning I tried to see if I could find the r-help mailing list on Google Groups, which has an interface that I like. I found three Google Groups ("The R Project for Statistical Computing", "rproject", and "rhelp") but none of them are connected to the r-help list. Is there perhaps some reason why it wouldn't be a good thing for there to be a connected Google Group? I think it should be possible to set things up so that a post to the Google Group goes to the r-help mailing list, and vice-versa. Also, does anyone know why the three existing R Google Groups failed to get connected to r-help? It might require some action on the part of the r-help list administrator. Thanks, --Paul -- Paul Lynch Aquilent, Inc. National Library of Medicine (Contractor) ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.