Dear R-user, I already received quite a lot of replies to this mail and like to do a preliminary sum up. A few were sceptical about the use of such a beginner mailing list. The arguments were that people starting with R will only stay subscribed for a short time until they reached the R-help "level" and therefore only beginner will teach beginner how to use R. But as far as I can judge, the majority of people who replied to this mail are medium to experienced user who like to help beginner but does not call themselves highly experienced user as the main "answerers" on the R-help mailing list. Therefore I assume that, even though some answers might be wrong, the threat of possibly wrong answers might be minimal, due to various experienced users who like to subsribe to this list. The majority of replies were positive about such a list and welcomed the idea to encourage new user by providing a basic R mailing list, like the already existent corresponding manuals in the contributed documentation at r-project.org. And again, this list shall only provide a basic and smooth introduction into R and its capabilities. Questions like; "How do I make my labels in a graphic bigger? - How do I change the colour? - etc." are welcome and surely would annoy the majority of R-help user because it is mentioned somewhere on the first 10 pages of every manual, but people who are used to click on a graphic and change it in a second would not be convinced that R can do great graphics. well, I would welcome if there would be more discussion about it or to give it a try (perhaps mention it on the r-project web-site) and look how productive this mailing list proves to be. The address of the R-beginner mailing list is: https://lists.uni-wuerzburg.de/mailman/listinfo/r-beginner best regards, Martin
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