It is clear that R and Bio are amazing resources and that many people invest lots of time in making them work, thank you
Having said that >From the point of view of an R/Bio novice an improved method to find packages would be very helpful as suggested by John Sorkin Three other things would also be helpful 1) a page titled "for the newbie" where the startup directions are clearly outlined, like "print out the R Reference Index which can be found <here> and read it", etc 2) the vignette's are quite terse and many assume the reader already knows something which may not be true, it would helpful if at the top of each there be a short paragraph saying "before you read this, you must read this and this" 3) "old timers" stop saying "please read the documentation" as I read that insatiably and if it fixed the problem I would not ask the next question, would be more helpful to say "in vignette xyz at the bottom you will find abc which will show you what to do" and would also follow the example of Bolker which educates and encourages the newbies Thank you Loren Engrav Univ Wash Seattle ______________________________________________ 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.
