--- On Tue, 2/3/09, hadley wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: hadley wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [R] Problems in Recommending R
> To: "Neil Shephard" <nsheph...@gmail.com>
> Cc: r-help@r-project.org
> Received: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 9:20 AM
> > Again I'd disagree, perhaps the most widely used
> suite of software has a
> > very simple and clean web-site with few bells and
> whistles, ditto for one of
> > the most popular text-editors. I am of course
> referring to the suite of GNU
> > utilities (http://www.gnu.org/) that make a working
> GNU/Linux distribution
> > and Emacs (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ ).
> >
> > I like the R web-site, its clean and simple, present
> key information
> > prominently (manuals, docs, CRAN, RNew and mailing
> lists).
>
> Have you ever used the R website?
>
> To download the latest version for R for windows you have
> to:
>
> 1. avoid clicking on the "R version 2.8.1" link
> - that takes you to a
> directory listing of strangely named files
>
> 2. recognise that you need to click on an CRAN (what is a
> cran?)
>
> 3. successfully select a mirror that is up-to-date (with
> no
> information about which mirrors are up-to-date)
>
> 4. click Windows (ok, this one is easy)
>
> 5. guess that base is the "distribution" that
> you want
>
> 6. phew, you're there (but don't follow the advice
> to download from a
> mirror near you or you'll be back at step 3)
>
> And then if you want to email the url of that page to
> someone else you
> have to jump through hoops because it's embedded in a
> frame.
>
> Hadley
This sounds simple enough :) Somewhere I have a set of instructions for some
naive new users on how to find documents about R. They were surprisingly
difficult to write.
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