R help - Apr 2005 - R mailing list archive difficulty

Hi, people!  This is my first babble on this list, please be kind! :-)

Last Tuesday, I wrote to the (likely) Webmaster of the R site to report
a little problem, but also to ask for advice about how to get a bulk
copy of the mailing list archives, from 2002 to now.

While I quite understand that from Tuesday to now, there has been little
time, and it is only normal that I did not receive a reply yet, I dare
re-submitting the same question (message appended below) to this list,
in hope someone will reply sooner.  I see some bits of free time, this
week-end, and would like using them, if possible, at the tedious work of
getting those archives, so it sooner gets behind me, instead of ahead...

                          Thanks to all.  Enjoy the spring! :-)

-- 
Fran?ois Pinard   http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca
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On 04/01/05 18:15, Franois Pinard wrote:
 I would like to get hold on a copy of R mailing lists archives, for
 local, off-line, progressive perusal (I find Web-based browsing of
 email extremely inefficient).  So, I recursively got archives from
 `ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Mail-archives/'.  The format used in these
 files is quite usable locally.  However, the problem is that these
 archives do not go beyond 2002.  (Maybe the `http://www.r-project.org'
 Web page should mention this.)

If you look at my page (which is also listed under "search" in
the main R page),
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/ ,
you will find a tool to search the mail archives, and links to
the archives themselves, which are at
https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/
(and probably listed in other places).

It isn't clear to me why you want to download the whole thing.
I did, but that was to set up a search engine for it.  It is
HUGE, not exactly for "perusal."

Jon
-- 
Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron