Ben Bolker wrote: > Alberto Monteiro <albmont <at> centroin.com.br> writes: > >> As a big fan of Wikipedia, it's frustrating to see how little there is about >> R in the correlated project, the Wikibooks: >> >> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/R_Programming >> >> Alberto Monteiro >> > > Well, we do have an R wiki -- http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php -- > although it is not as active as I'd like. (We got stuck halfway through > porting Paul Johnson's "R Tips" to it ...) Please contribute! > Most of the (considerable) effort people expend in answering > questions about R goes to the mailing lists -- I personally would like it if > some > tiny fraction of that energy could be redirected toward the wiki, where > information can be presented in a nicer format and (ideally) polished > over time -- rather than having to dig back through multiple threads on the > mailing lists to get answers. (After that we have to get people > to look for the answers on the wiki.)
I would like to strongly second Ben. In some ways, R experts are too nice. Continuing to answer the same questions over and over does not lead to a better way using R wiki. I would rather see the work go into enhancing the wiki and refactoring information, and responses to many r-help please for help be "see wiki topic x". While doing this let's consider putting a little more burden on new users to look for good answers already provided. Frank > > Just my two cents -- and I've been delinquent in my > wiki'ing recently too ... > > Ben Bolker > > ______________________________________________ > [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 > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University ______________________________________________ [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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
