Re: [R] Proposal for New R List: Criticism? Comments?

2004-09-19 Thread Jim Lemon
It seems to me that \concept{} is simply another code for My keyword is your search term. I do not consider myself to be one of the better informed users of R, yet the frequency with which I resort to a full text search is less than once a month. For such an infrequent task, I find it no problem

RE: [R] Proposal for New R List: Criticism? Comments?

2004-09-17 Thread Martin Maechler
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 5:26 AM To: Jonathan Baron Cc: Adaikalavan Ramasamy; John Fox; R-help; 'Berton Gunter' Subject: Re: [R] Proposal for New R List: Criticism? Comments? On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Jonathan Baron wrote: On 09/10/04 03:54

RE: [R] Proposal for New R List: Criticism? Comments?

2004-09-17 Thread John Fox
-Original Message- From: Martin Maechler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 7:57 AM To: John Fox Cc: 'R-help' Subject: RE: [R] Proposal for New R List: Criticism? Comments? Hi John et al. I'm coming late to this thread (because of vacation), JohnF

Re: [R] Proposal for New R List: Criticism? Comments?

2004-09-10 Thread Jonathan Baron
On 09/10/04 03:54, Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote: There is another issue to be considered. Currently you need to have the relevant packages installed before help.search() bring it up. My work around this is to install all available packages just in case the function I need is nestled in some

Re: [R] Proposal for New R List: Criticism? Comments?

2004-09-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Jonathan Baron wrote: On 09/10/04 03:54, Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote: There is another issue to be considered. Currently you need to have the relevant packages installed before help.search() bring it up. My work around this is to install all available packages just in case

RE: [R] Proposal for New R List: Criticism? Comments?

2004-09-10 Thread John Fox
, September 10, 2004 5:26 AM To: Jonathan Baron Cc: Adaikalavan Ramasamy; John Fox; R-help; 'Berton Gunter' Subject: Re: [R] Proposal for New R List: Criticism? Comments? On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Jonathan Baron wrote: On 09/10/04 03:54, Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote: There is another issue

Re: [R] Proposal for New R List: Criticism? Comments?

2004-09-10 Thread Adaikalavan Ramasamy
Just finished updating and installing new packages from CRAN and BioConductor (including annotation data) and am happy to say that my R has just exceeded the 1 GB mark. On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 10:11, Jonathan Baron wrote: On 09/10/04 03:54, Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote: There is another issue to

Re: [R] Proposal for New R List: Criticism? Comments?

2004-09-09 Thread Jonathan Baron
I think that a lot of posts on r-help are exactly of the form you suggest: How do I do X? Answer: Use Y. (Or maybe, Use Y. And next time RTFM. But so what. The answer is still there.) Often, when the answer is not of that form, the question is unclear. In other cases, the questioner is

RE: [R] Proposal for New R List: Criticism? Comments?

2004-09-09 Thread John Fox
Dear Bert, I believe that you've identified an important issue -- and one that's occasionally been discussed on this list previously -- but I'm not sure that another email list is a good solution. Some method of indexing functions in packages that would allow people to more easily locate them