[R] reliability of R-Forge?

How reliable is R-Forge? http://r-forge.r-project.org/ It is down now (for me). Reporting "R-Forge Could Not Connect to Database: " I have just started to use it for a project. It has been down for several hours (at least) on different occasions over the last couple of days. Is that common? Will

[R] parsing pdf files

I have a pdf file that I would like to parse into R: http://www.williams.edu/Registrar/geninfo/faculty.pdf For now, I open the file in Acrobat by hand, then save it "as text" and then use readLines(). That works fine but a) I am concerned that some information may be lost and b) I may be doing th

[R] R question type in Moodle

Moodle (www.moodle.org) is an open source course management system, a competitor to Blackboard. I am writing several hundred R questions that will be used within the quiz module in Moodle. Unfortunately, Moodle does not have a built in question type for R. You can read about the different questions

[R] Sources for open sourced homework questions for R?

Hi, I am teaching a one month class in applied statistics and want to bring my students up to speed in R without devoting much/any lecture time to R instruction. I think that the best way to do this is to provide them with a lot of R questions for homework. These questions would be numerous (there