Pat, Off the bat, beginners and advanced. In addition, splitting by domain would be very helpful -- something along the lines of: http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/. But we should be careful, we do not want to create 20 other mailing lists :) We have to group things. This will help splitting the volume of the list and will help in targeting lists by expertise. Thanks, Saeed
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Patrick Burns <pbu...@pburns.seanet.com> wrote: > Saeed, > > If the R-help list were split, what do you > see as the pieces? > > Pat > > On 26/02/2010 01:53, Saeed Abu Nimeh wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Patrick Burns<pbu...@pburns.seanet.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> * What were your biggest misconceptions or >>> stumbling blocks to getting up and running >>> with R? >> >> 1- Compared to other programming languages it is hard to learn R by >> example, because it is hard to find code on the web that will do the >> exact thing you are looking for, sometimes you might get lucky though. >> By contrast, take Perl for example, it is an easy language to learn by >> example. >> >> 2- The R mailing list. Beginners get frustrated after they struggle >> for a long time to solve a problem and the easiest thing then is to >> send an email to the R mailing list. I did this in the past. The best >> thing that happened was that my request was neglected and I had to >> spend more time on the problem and find a solution by myself >> eventually. Do not get me wrong, I am not saying that the mailing list >> is bad, but it should be more organized. Maybe broken down into couple >> of other mailing lists. This might bring up a good discussion thread. >> >>> >>> * What documents helped you the most in this >>> initial phase? >> >> An Introduction to R by Venables >> simpleR – Using R for Introductory Statistics by Verzani >> > > -- > Patrick Burns > pbu...@pburns.seanet.com > http://www.burns-stat.com > (home of 'The R Inferno' and 'A Guide for the Unwilling S User') > ______________________________________________ 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.
