Dear Sir/Madam: Great thanks for R project and you contribution. I am Liping Liu, a beginner of R. Recently, I use R much. I wish you could improve the manual by making it search engine friendly. The "Introduction to R" page is too long. I am often redirected to this page by goole, but I still can not find the content I need easily. Could you please make it a structured: one page concentrated on a small topic and all these pages linked together? Indeed the tutorial of Weka is much better than R's, in my point of view. And I can not find a enterance of references. I appriciate it if you take my feedback seriously. best, Liping Liu [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Perhaps 'Some hints for the R beginner' http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/hints_R_begin.html is closer to what you have in mind. It includes links to other documents that are possibly along the lines you seek. On 23/10/2010 07:18, ??? wrote:> Dear Sir/Madam: > > Great thanks for R project and you contribution. > > I am Liping Liu, a beginner of R. Recently, I use R much. I wish you could > improve the manual by making it search engine friendly. > > The "Introduction to R" page is too long. I am often redirected to this page > by goole, but I still can not find the content I need easily. > > Could you please make it a structured: one page concentrated on a small > topic and all these pages linked together? > > Indeed the tutorial of Weka is much better than R's, in my point of view. > > And I can not find a enterance of references. > > I appriciate it if you take my feedback seriously. > > best, > Liping Liu > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >-- Patrick Burns pburns at pburns.seanet.com http://www.portfolioprobe.com/blog http://www.burns-stat.com (home of 'Some hints for the R beginner' and 'The R Inferno')
Dear Liping Liu, You may already be familiar with this, but most browser have the ability to search for text on the current page. Via menu's often something like Edit -> Find or with the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl + F. This is much more convenient than scrolling through a long page of text looking for some keyword. Cheers, Josh On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:18 PM, ??? <liping.liulp at gmail.com> wrote:> Dear Sir/Madam: > > Great thanks for R project and you contribution. > > I am Liping Liu, a beginner of R. Recently, I use R much. I wish you could > improve the manual by making it search engine friendly. > > The "Introduction to R" page is too long. I am often redirected to this page > by goole, but I still can not find the content I need easily. > > Could you please make it a structured: one page concentrated on a small > topic and all these pages linked together? > > Indeed the tutorial of Weka is much better than R's, in my point of view. > > And I can not find a enterance of references. > > I appriciate it if you take my feedback seriously. > > best, > Liping Liu > > ? ? ? ?[[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >-- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology University of California, Los Angeles http://www.joshuawiley.com/
Hi Liping, On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 2:18 AM, ??? <liping.liulp at gmail.com> wrote:> Dear Sir/Madam: > > Great thanks for R project and you contribution. > > I am Liping Liu, a beginner of R. Recently, I use R much. I wish you could > improve the manual by making it search engine friendly. > > The "Introduction to R" page is too long. I am often redirected to this page > by goole, but I still can not find the content I need easily.Speaking as as an older R-user to a new R-user, I can understand some of the frustrations you feel with coming up to speed with a new programming language. One piece of advice I have for you is that you should actually take the time to read through the entirety of that "An Introduction to R" page you keep stumbling upon. You can get through most of it in a night, and having read through it you'll likely be able to jump to relevant places of it when google sends you there as a result of one of your queries. Another piece of advice is for you to look a bit closer at the search results google provides. Using the context of the page that is returned under the google-provided-link, you can easily jump to that portion of the page using your browser's "Find" functionality. For instance, I searched google for "index vector r" One of the results was a link back to the Intro to R page. That particular result from google looked like this: An Introduction to R Jump to Index matrices?: As well as an index vector in any subscript position, a matrix ... cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html - Cached - Similar (The first line there is the link to the intro web page, the second line is the "context" I'm referring to). You can click on the "An introduction to R" link. Once the page loads, invoke your browser's "Find" and write (or paste) into the find dialog "index vector in any subscript position" (I just copied this from the 2nd line in the google result). You will be taken to the part of the page that google has found relevant for you. Hope that helps, -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology ?| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ?| Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 23:18 -0700, ??? wrote:> Dear Sir/Madam: > > Great thanks for R project and you contribution. > > I am Liping Liu, a beginner of R. Recently, I use R much. I wish you could > improve the manual by making it search engine friendly. > > The "Introduction to R" page is too long. I am often redirected to this page > by goole, but I still can not find the content I need easily. > > Could you please make it a structured: one page concentrated on a small > topic and all these pages linked together?As this is a Manual meant for circulation in several different formats this is unlikely to happen. The (IIRC) texinfo source is processed into pdf and html versions for you convenience. The html version is not the main format for the manual. Your browser has a search facility that you could use once directed to that page as the result of a Google search.> Indeed the tutorial of Weka is much better than R's, in my point of view.This (the R manual) is not a tutorial. The Introduction to R document is a manual. It serves a particular purpose. You are free to provide your own manuals or tutorials if you wish. Several members of the community have done just this, noticing that the Introduction to R manual may not be the most useful resource for different groups of useRs. You can find these user-contributed documents here: http://cran.r-project.org/other-docs.html> And I can not find a enterance of references.Not sure what you mean by enterance (?), but there is a references section to the manual: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html#References Or did you have a different type of reference in mind? G> I appriciate it if you take my feedback seriously. > > best, > Liping Liu > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.-- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%