On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Charles C. Berry wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, John Kane wrote:
I was starting to write a note to a prospective R-user and came to the
point of explaining how to get useful introductory information on R.
After mentioning the Into and the FAQs I went on to try to explain how to
use a lot of the contributed information.
However I realised that there seems to be no direct way to get to Other
Publications or Contributed Documenation.
The best I have seen is to get to Books and then click on "other
publications" which take one to "Publications related to R" or go to
"other" (main page) and then click on "Contributed Documentation"
which takes one to "Contributed Documentation" This seems less than
optimal.
Am I missing some more direct ways to get to "Publications related to R"
and "Contributed Documentation"? I remember blundering around the site
for some time (days in elapsed time?) before I managed to find these
documents.
Look at the page source for
http://www.r-project.org/navbar.html
or
http://cran.r-project.org/navbar.html
and you will see the href URLs.
Or if you use Firefox, right click on the link, select 'copy link location',
and paste the result into your explanation or paste it into your location
window and then bookmark it.
Better still, use an R-centric solution:
cran.url <- "http://cran.r-project.org/";
cran.navbar <- readLines( url( paste( cran.url, "navbar.html" , sep="" ) ) )
contrib.link <- sub(".*href=\"([^\"]+)\".*", "\\1",
grep("Contributed",cran.navbar,value=TRUE) )
contrib.url <- paste( cran.url, contrib.link , sep="" )
contrib.url
[1] "http://cran.us.r-project.org/other-docs.html";
contrib.source <- readLines( url( contrib.url ) )
and so on.
:-)
Chuck
HTH,
Chuck
If I am not we may be losing a lot of potential users who just cannot
find basic documentation. The Intro and the FAQs are invaluable but not
exactly the best way for a complete noivice to get started.
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