Re: [R] R web site-Useability & finding varous bits of documentation

2008-06-20 Thread Dieter Menne
hadley wickham gmail.com> writes: > > > Note that the R-project page (www.r-project.org) > > and CRAN are two "things", albeit closely related. > > CRAN is for "DOWNLOAD"ing, including free contributed docs. > > So that is the main reason, "contrib.docs" are not there in >> the www.r-projec

Re: [R] R web site-Useability & finding varous bits of documentation

2008-06-19 Thread hadley wickham
> Note that the R-project page (www.r-project.org) > and CRAN are two "things", albeit closely related. > CRAN is for "DOWNLOAD"ing, including free contributed docs. > So that is the main reason, "contrib.docs" are not there in the > www.r-project.org sidebar. Why does there need to be two site

Re: [R] R web site-Useability & finding varous bits of documentation

2008-06-19 Thread John Kane
--- On Thu, 6/19/08, Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [R] R web site-Useability & finding varous bits of documentation > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: "R R-help" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &

Re: [R] R web site-Useability & finding varous bits of documentation

2008-06-19 Thread John Kane
Charles C. Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Charles C. Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [R] R web site-Useability & finding varous bits of documentation > To: "John Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "R R-help" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [R] R web site-Useability & finding varous bits of documentation

2008-06-19 Thread John Kane
harles C. Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Charles C. Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [R] R web site-Useability & finding varous bits of documentation > To: "John Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "R R-help" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [R] R web site-Useability & finding varous bits of documentation

2008-06-19 Thread Charles C. Berry
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

Re: [R] R web site-Useability & finding varous bits of documentation

2008-06-19 Thread Charles C. Berry
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.

Re: [R] R web site-Useability & finding varous bits of documentation

2008-06-19 Thread Martin Maechler
> "JK" == John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:50:18 -0700 (PDT) writes: JK> I was starting to write a note to a prospective R-user JK> and came to the point of explaining how to get useful JK> introductory information on R. After mentioning the JK> I

[R] R web site-Useability & finding varous bits of documentation

2008-06-19 Thread John Kane
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 t