> so the results you are looking come up in your search (e.g. "find > length of array, Matlab"). Try a similar web search for R and you > will learn nothing -- Why? because the letter "R" is on almost every > web page on the planet.
FWIW using Teoma (I've been (probably unwisely) boycotting Google of late), the search 'find length of vector R' points to mostly responses about the R language. Also FWIW it appears the same is not true of Google. Although I'm too lazy to try more than this one example (as I didn't intend it to be a search engine comparison) I wonder if something like "R" might not just be very Google-friendly while not being bad in various other search engines. Regardless I realize that more esoteric searches likely won't have the same R-centric responses as was the case here. > quickly. I realize that there is the R-project website and so on, > but the decentralized nature of the web assures that not not everyone > will post their answers there and people such as me who search google > first rather than going straight to a single site will have a hard > time finding answers. I've found that putting r-project as a search string is not very limiting as the bulk of stuff like you're looking for ends up in these mailing lists. Also a lot of other sites with R based info/help tend to link to r-project anyways (and thus should get picked up). Not perfect but not as dire a situation as you make it sound, IMO. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
