[R] R web site-Useability & finding varous bits of documentation

Dieter Menne
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:08:18 -0000

hadley wickham <h.wickham <at> gmail.com> writes:

>
> > Note that the R-project page (www.r-project.org)
> > and  CRAN  are two "things",  albeit closely related.
> > CRAN is for "DOWNLOAD"ing, including free contributed docs.
> > So that is the main reason, "contrib.docs" are not there in
>> the  www.r-project.org sidebar.
>
> Why does there need to be two sites?
>
I agree. I never  understood this division, and it adds a lot of
confusion because parts are repeated.

Dieter