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

Paul E. Johnson
2003-06-02T17:19:32Z

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 section on packages because I just
can't keep up with the creativity of the R community.  I did most of
that list before Frank Harrell put up Hmisc and Design, you know.

The Rtips page is still up here:

http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/R/statsRus.html

The FaqManager software is starting to show its age, but it still works.
 If you want to be a contributor, I could assign for you a password on
that server.

Also, I think it will work if you go to this other name I have created
for this same thing:

http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/R/Rtips.html

Some users write and ask me why I did not contribute this doc to the R
homepage, and I have no good answer except that in the beginning I did
not have enough stuff to make it worthwhile.  Since the content of Rtips
can change on a daily/weekly basis, it did not seem right to just make a
snapshot and email it over. But I'm open to suggestions.

Frank Mattes wrote:

> 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
> suggestions. I was always wondering if my questions didn't come up
> before. 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 if this is possible to do nor how time consuming the
> maintaining would be.
>
> This is just my view how the help list could be improved
>
> Yours
> Frank



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