On 10/23/07, Philippe Grosjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Matt, > > The R-Wiki is actively maintained... the addition of material to it is > up to R users with any kind of initiative like this being warmly > welcome. As for Bill Venable's comment, I totally agree: you should > better test your concept first, and be ready to have very poor, as well > as probably some excellent documents. I think it should be wise to > announce to your students that "the best documents will be posted to the > R wiki", so that you may place a filter somewhere. > > As for the format, PDF is interesting as the student could learn Sweave > too. However, the R Wiki allows for further corrections and additions to > the documents. For the possible section in the Wiki, may be, a dedicated > section like "Users' guide (written by users)" could be created, and > then, you will organize material inside as you like. Otherwise, the > existing "Guides" section should be fine (feel free to create > subdirectories). > > I tend to give a lot of attention to documents written by "beginners", > because they are the best people to tell what is difficult and what is > not in R! It is the starting motivation for the R Wiki, indeed.
But they are simultaneously the worst people to provide good advice. The wiki seems to be riddled with poor practice and "hacks" to get around misunderstandings of the way R works. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@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.
