On 3/8/06, roger bos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Indeed, when I was writing code in Java or VBA and I needed code, say to > buble sort or invert a CDF, I could find many examples on the web since the > user base was so large. R has something better: CRAN. It was really smart > to make a central repository where useRs can share code. No other language > that I can think of really has an equivalent. All I have to do it search > CRAN and I can find 99% of what out there (I'm making a guess on the actual > number here).
Don't forget, there's also life outside CRAN ;) /Henrik > > Besides, I don't need to write bubble sort routines anymore because almost > everything I need is already built into R. > > > > > On 3/7/06, Liaw, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > From: Dirk Eddelbuettel > > > > > > On 7 March 2006 at 10:55, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > > > | I have given up on "R" with any topic on Google quite some time ago > > > | (because bits from fragmented postscript/pdf files show up, for > > > | example) - but using "r-devel" with topic normally gives me enough. > > > | YMMV. > > > > > > Nobody seems to have mentioned the RSiteSearch() function > > > which automagically restrict the search to domains relevant > > > to the contect of "our" use of the letter R. I quite like > > > that as I tend to have an R prompt open when I am puzzled by > > > R questions ... > > > > My guess is that people were hoping to find things outside of what Jon > > made > > available or what's on or linked from www.r-project.org. I believe that's > > not going to be very productive (at least for now). I don't think there's > > a > > whole lot of things related to R that isn't found in those two places. > > > > Andy > > > > > Dirk > > > > > > -- > > > Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. > > > -- Thomas A. Edison > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > -- Henrik Bengtsson Mobile: +46 708 909208 (+1h UTC) ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
