Re: Rtips (was Re: [R] ? building a database with a the great examples

2003-06-04 Thread Paul E. Johnson
I think there is a lot of merit in this idea. I think there is a big question about authentication and protection of Wikis from vandalism. I've set up Wikis for other projects that I started after Rtips. I have not seen your Wiki software before, but it looks pretty nice. I see it does

Re: Rtips (was Re: [R] ? building a database with a the great examples

2003-06-04 Thread Detlef Steuer
On 03-Jun-2003 Paul E. Johnson wrote: I think there is a lot of merit in this idea. I think there is a big question about authentication and protection of Wikis from vandalism. Yes. But I`ll do my daily backups, so major vandalism wouldn't be such a problem. (I hope.) Personally I don't like

Rtips (was Re: [R] ? building a database with a the great examples

2003-06-03 Thread Paul E. Johnson
Perhaps you want to start maintaining Rtips itself! 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

RE: Rtips (was Re: [R] ? building a database with a the great examples

2003-06-03 Thread Detlef Steuer
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

[R] ? building a database with a the great examples

2003-05-29 Thread Frank Mattes
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

Re: [R] ? building a database with a the great examples

2003-05-29 Thread Jonathan Baron
On 05/28/03 20:09, Frank Mattes wrote: 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