Philippe Grosjean wrote: > > As other have pointed out, the main reason for the lack of success > of the R Wiki is that the mailing lists, particularly R-Help, are > sooo successful. However, I continue to consider that the mailing > list is suboptimal in two cases: (1) when text is not enough to > express the idea, and (2) for frequent questions that would > certainly deserve a good compilation on a wiki page and a > redirection to it everytime the question is asked. > I think there's one case where the mailing list is non-optimal: finding examples. This is where a wiki would be great.
Say I don't know (and I can't understand the help) how to use the rnorm function. If I do RSiteSearch("rnorm"), I will get too much useless information. OTOH, an ideal wikipedia would have a page http://www.r-wiki.org/rnorm, where I could find examples, learn the theory, browse the source code, and have links to similar functions. OK, maybe that's too much, I would be happy just to have some examples :-) Also, RSiteSearching is dangerous, because if someone replies in an ignorant or malicous way (let's be creative: someone asks "how can I open the file CONFIG.SYS", and an evil person replies with file.remove("CONFIG.SYS")), then this wrong answer may be accessed by newbies. A wikipedia _may_ have wrong answers, but these are (hopefully) ephemeral. BTW, is it too hard to include the wiki in RSiteSearch? Alberto Monteiro ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.