Re: [R] A possible way to reduce basic questions

2004-12-04 Thread Anne
patient answers !) Anne - Original Message - From: Tim Cutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 6:17 PM Subject: Re: [R] A possible way to reduce basic questions On 2 Dec 2004, at 1:23 am, Gabor Grothendieck

Re: [R] A possible way to reduce basic questions

2004-12-04 Thread Jonathan Baron
On 12/02/04 21:15, Anne wrote: What about starting a database? Of what? Like the one in the last line of my .sig? -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron R search page: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/

Re: [R] A possible way to reduce basic questions

2004-12-02 Thread Tim Cutts
On 2 Dec 2004, at 1:23 am, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Jim Lemon bitwrit at ozemail.com.au writes: I have been thinking about how to reduce the number of basic questions that elicit the ...ahem... robust debate that has occurred about how to answer The traffic on r-help could be reduced by

Re: [R] A possible way to reduce basic questions

2004-12-02 Thread Yuandan Zhang
I would like to add a few points on the increasing size of r-help. 1. this is a possitive sign that more and more people migrate to R. For starting users of R or a R package, the r-help is unique way to seek answers. Gradually, once starting, I trust, users are finding ways to search answers.

Re: [R] A possible way to reduce basic questions

2004-12-01 Thread Jonathan Baron
On 12/03/04 20:48, Jim Lemon wrote: I think this program or something similar could produce a regularly updated list of functions available on CRAN, and that list would be easy enough to search to encourage anyone who was looking for a function to try it. My search site (below) also allows

Re: [R] A possible way to reduce basic questions

2004-12-01 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Jim Lemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One theme of such questions is I want to do this, is there a function to do it? These usually receive the: ?something reply if the respondent is in a good mood. Notice however, that any respondent worth his salt usually checks whether the relevant

RE: [R] A possible way to reduce basic questions

2004-12-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Jim Lemon bitwrit at ozemail.com.au writes: I have been thinking about how to reduce the number of basic questions that elicit the ...ahem... robust debate that has occurred about how to answer The traffic on r-help could be reduced by creating a second list where more elementary questions

RE: [R] A possible way to reduce basic questions

2004-12-01 Thread Jim Lemon
As there seems to be some interest in this concept, I'll include the C code (The attachment seems to have been deleted from my last message). I compiled this as follows: gcc -o indxlst indxlst.c It runs like this: indxlst -t path_to_R_library_directory producing a file named INDEX_list.html