> Many (perhaps most?) questions on the list are easily answerable simply by > checking existing R Docs (Help file/man pages, Intro to R, etc.). Why would > a Wiki be more effective in deflecting such questions from the mailing list > than them? Why would too helpful R experts be more inclined to refer people > to the Wiki than the existing docs? Bottom line: it's psychology at issue > here, I think, not the form of the docs.
I agree - and there's also a problem that until the wiki becomes useful there's no point referring people to it, and because no one visits it, it doesn't get better. http://www.wikipatterns.com provides some good advice for getting a wiki going. Hadley ______________________________________________ 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.
