On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Saeed Abu Nimeh <sabun...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Note that there are already 24 mailing lists here: http://www.r-project.org/mail.html > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
