Ahh... I have almost forgotten the forum links I put in the R Wiki four years ago! Thanks for reminding me!
As many Chinese users know, the Chinese R forum at http://cos.name/cn/ is pretty mature now. From my experience in maintaining this forum, I can fully understand Vojtěch's proposal, and in fact I also considered this years ago (see my "failure" at http://cos.name/en/). Mailing lists are easier to post messages, but I really believe they have too many disadvantages, e.g. (relatively) difficult to search, dull interface, HTML not welcome (I don't like HTML in emails, though), no lively images, no code highlighting, attachments often get chopped off, no RSS to subscribe, admins are still fighting with spams somehow manually (?), and imagine how painful it is for us to read the "threaded" web archives... In all, we don't have to refuse technologies, and I totally agree with an official web forum for R. I am also willing to help if the R core members decide to start such a project. P. S. I was really surprised quite a few weeks ago when I noticed the Omegahat project had set up a blog site (http://omegahat.wordpress.com)! "Welcome to the web of the 21st century!" was what I thought to myself. Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA 2010/9/21 Vojtěch Zeisek <vojtech.zei...@opensuse.org>: > Hello > >> On Sep 21, 2010, at 11:40 AM, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote: >> > Did you look at: >> > http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php >> > ? > > Wiki is not tool I mean. Well, I found there only one not working link and one > link to mostly Chinese forum... So nothing useful, I thing. > >> > Kjetil > > Best regards, > Vojtěch Zeisek > ______________________________________________ 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.
