Full_Name: Ray Kiddy Version: R 2.5.0 GUI 1.19 (4308) OS: Mac OS X 10.4.9 Submission from: (NULL) (71.139.33.60) There is no section in the FAQ equivalent to "Using R". The "R Basics" is too basic. I would say it addresses "meta-R" questions, such as installing. I had a FAQ that I would think would be a basic "Using R" question, namely: "How does one generate random numbers?". It is actually non-trivial to answer this if one is new to R, as there are too many hits for "Random" and they dive too deeply. My answer to this FAQ would be: In order to generate random numbers, there are "r" methods for every distribution. Distributions include Uniform (runif), Binomial (rbinom), Normal (rnorm), Cauchy (rcauchy), Chi Square (rchisq), Exponential (rexp), Gamma (rgamma), and many more. By the way, the R program itself is really badly in need of an "appropos()" to go alongside "help()". Perhaps "help()" can be renamed to "hunt()" or "huntAndPeck()".
ray at ganymede.org wrote:> By the way, the R program itself is really badly in need of an "appropos()" to > go alongside "help()". Perhaps "help()" can be renamed to "hunt()" or > "huntAndPeck()". > >help.search("appropos") -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard ?ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907
There are also R reference cards and other quick- and kick-starting manuals, mentioned in the documentation. Ray Kiddy-2 wrote:> > There is no section in the FAQ equivalent to "Using R". The "R Basics" is > too > basic. I would say it addresses "meta-R" questions, such as installing. > > I had a FAQ that I would think would be a basic "Using R" question, > namely: "How > does one generate random numbers?". It is actually non-trivial to answer > this if > one is new to R, as there are too many hits for "Random" and they dive too > deeply. > > My answer to this FAQ would be: > > In order to generate random numbers, there are "r" methods for every > distribution. Distributions include Uniform (runif), Binomial (rbinom), > Normal > (rnorm), Cauchy (rcauchy), Chi Square (rchisq), Exponential (rexp), Gamma > (rgamma), and many more. > > By the way, the R program itself is really badly in need of an > "appropos()" to > go alongside "help()". Perhaps "help()" can be renamed to "hunt()" or > "huntAndPeck()". >-- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/section-needed-in-FAQ---Using-R-%28PR-9698%29-tf3788564.html#a10717487 Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com.