RE: RBase Printed Documentation

[Lynn Shelton]

I started with R:Base in 1990.  I sat at my computer with the R:Base Reference Manual on the floor next to me and the R:Base User Manual in my lap.  I still have my 4.5+ manuals, and I still use them.  I also use to have Alan Simpson's book "Understanding R:Base" and it was very helpful to me as a newbee to get up to speed with the basics.  I don't have much of a problem using the current electronic help file and online documentation systems, but I am not now a newbee.  I am not sure how I would handle the learning curve if I were today encountering R:Base as a new product, but I suspect that it wouldn't be near as easy as when I began as a new user.  My old printed manuals are still very important tools for me!   Lynn Shelton [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Just think of when any of you got started with RBase.  Do you believe that the current documentation would have helped you get to where you are today?   Enrique Wintergerst