On 02-Jun-2003 Paul E. Johnson wrote: > Perhaps you want to start maintaining Rtips itself!
Perhaps it is time to start a wiki for R? For those not familiar with the idea of wikis look here: http://www.wikipedia.org/ (incredible wiki encyclopedia) http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWiki (for a description of the mechanisms of wikiwikis) I just did a quick hack to set one up: http://fawn.unibw-hamburg.de/cgi-bin/Rwiki.pl?RwikiHome Any comments welcome! If the community uses the site I promise to do what I can to keep it running. Detlef > > I don't have as much time for it as I used to. I still think it is > valuable to have such a listing, but it is so hard to keep up to date > with R and I'm only doing minimal work to keep it up to date. I'm > thinking of dropping altogether the section on packages because I just > can't keep up with the creativity of the R community. I did most of > that list before Frank Harrell put up Hmisc and Design, you know. > > The Rtips page is still up here: > > http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/R/statsRus.html > > The FaqManager software is starting to show its age, but it still works. > If you want to be a contributor, I could assign for you a password on > that server. > > Also, I think it will work if you go to this other name I have created > for this same thing: > > http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/R/Rtips.html > > Some users write and ask me why I did not contribute this doc to the R > homepage, and I have no good answer except that in the beginning I did > not have enough stuff to make it worthwhile. Since the content of Rtips > can change on a daily/weekly basis, it did not seem right to just make a > snapshot and email it over. But I'm open to suggestions. > > Frank Mattes wrote: > >> Dear R help reader, >> >> I'm not an expert in R and are lerning a lot by reading the help >> digest, which is sometimes difficult because the huge amount of data >> posted. I have posted some questions before, and are impressed how >> quick I got a solution for my problem. Sometimes with quite different >> suggestions. I was always wondering if my questions didn't come up >> before. On the other site, it wasn't easy to search the help archive, >> purely I didn't know how to formulate my problem. >> I'm wondering if we could not collect all the answers / examples in a >> database - >> sorted in topics, like the help document "Rtips". >> I have no clue if this is possible to do nor how time consuming the >> maintaining would be. >> >> This is just my view how the help list could be improved >> >> Yours >> Frank > > > > -- > Paul E. Johnson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dept. of Political Science http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn > University of Kansas Office: (785) 864-9086 > Lawrence, Kansas 66045 FAX: (785) 864-5700 > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help "There is no way to peace, peace is the way." -- Ghandi Detlef Steuer --- http://fawn.unibw-hamburg.de/steuer.html ***** Encrypted mail preferred ***** ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
