I think we occasionally think that it is very easy to get information because we know how to find the information. This does not mean that other people know how to find the answer. It is for this reason that questions appear on the listserver that we might think could be easily found from other sources. John
John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics Baltimore VA Medical Center GRECC, University of Maryland School of Medicine Claude D. Pepper OAIC, University of Maryland Clinical Nutrition Research Unit, and Baltimore VA Center Stroke of Excellence University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 (Phone) 410-605-7119 (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> "hadley wickham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3/29/2007 7:47 PM >>> > 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. Confidentiality Statement: This email message, including any attachments, is for the so...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ 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.
