> 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
As a relative n00b user I agree with this. The R organization pages are not very readable especially if you aren't even sure what you're looking for (not know the name of a specific function etc.) and pdf:s, search.help or ? are not the best ways always either. I did not even now there was R wiki. I couldn't find a link from the R organization pages to it or am I just blind? Katja Löytynoja FM > > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
