The fact is that, while certainly desirable, it is very difficult and time-consuming to write the sort of extensively exampled, instructional Help files that you desire. Given the voluntary nature of R authors/developers, the Help files as they exist are remarkable, while still admittedly being uneven. SAS charges all that money and sells all those manuals for a reason: the revenue stream allows them to employ an army of documenters to presumably do the sorts of things you'd like. If that's really important to you -- and this is no criticism -- you should pay the money and use SAS. Those of us who use R feel that it's many strengths outweigh this weakness.
One addendum to this, already extensively discussed in this thread: There are more and more extra R documentation and instructional sources (Peter Dalgaard's book being a recent example) that can help. Search the thread and CRAN for more. -- Bert Bert Gunter Non-Clinical Biostatistics Genentech MS: 240B Phone: 650-467-7374 "The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process." -- George E.P. Box ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
