> One thing I find most frustrating about R is how difficult it is to use > Google (or any other search tool) to look for answers to my R-related > questions. With languages with even slightly more distinctive names like > Perl, Java, Python, Matlab, OCaml, etc., usually including the name of the > language in the query is enough to ensure that the top hits are relevant. > But this trick does not work for R, because the letter R appears by itself > in so many pages, that the chaff overwhelms the wheat, so to speak.
There are loads of ways of finding information. Use the function RSiteSearch, or The R mail archive http://www.googlesyndicatedsearch.com/u/newcastlemaths RSeek http://www.rseek.org/ R Search http://www.dangoldstein.com/search_r.html The R Graph Gallery http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/ R Help Wiki http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php R manuals http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html FAQs http://cran.r-project.org/faqs.html Task Views http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ News http://www.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/index.html Books http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R-books.html Cranberries http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/ R-Forge (http://r-forge.r-project.org/) and Bioconductor ( http://www.bioconductor.org/GettingStarted) also have their own search tools. Regards, Richie. Mathematical Sciences Unit HSL ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ATTENTION: This message contains privileged and confidential inform...{{dropped:20}} ______________________________________________ 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.
