Re: [R] R's documentation

2009-05-30 Thread David Winsemius
On May 30, 2009, at 2:01 AM, Zeljko Vrba wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 05:20:24PM +0100, Patrick Burns wrote: If you find some documentation that is confusing, then you can write a message about it that states: I think that some kind of a glossary would be helpful. Then I would know whet

Re: [R] R's documentation

2009-05-30 Thread Patrick Burns
Zeljko Vrba wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 05:20:24PM +0100, Patrick Burns wrote: If you find some documentation that is confusing, then you can write a message about it that states: I think that some kind of a glossary would be helpful. Then I would know whether certain words or phrases ar

Re: [R] R's documentation

2009-05-29 Thread Zeljko Vrba
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 05:20:24PM +0100, Patrick Burns wrote: > > If you find some documentation that is > confusing, then you can write a message > about it that states: > I think that some kind of a glossary would be helpful. Then I would know whether certain words or phrases are R-specific o

Re: [R] R's documentation

2009-05-29 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Zheng, Xin (NIH) [C] wrote: > Sometimes I get confused with R's documentation. It seems the documents is > not maintained and updated well. Anyone has similar feeling? I don't mean to > offend anyone. I hope R would get better and better. But documentation is >

Re: [R] R's documentation

2009-05-29 Thread Zheng, Xin (NIH) [C]
use 'mean'. -Original Message- From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 12:28 PM To: Zheng, Xin (NIH) [C] Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] R's documentation Which version of R is this? From the BUGS section in NEWS for R 2.9.0

Re: [R] R's documentation

2009-05-29 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
thm. Why not say more clearly that "make use of partial sorting and calculating mean of middle values". Maybe I'm too strict. It's not a really bug. Let's stop this thread. From: Kjetil Halvorsen [mailto:kjetilbrinchmannhalvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 1

Re: [R] R's documentation

2009-05-29 Thread Patrick Burns
Zheng, Xin (NIH) [C] wrote: Sometimes I get confused with R's documentation. It seems the documents is not maintained and updated well. Anyone has similar feeling? I don't mean to offend anyone. I hope R would get better and better. But documentation is really one very important factor which coul

Re: [R] R's documentation

2009-05-29 Thread Zheng, Xin (NIH) [C]
ch the exact point of its algorithm. Why not say more clearly that "make use of partial sorting and calculating mean of middle values". Maybe I'm too strict. It's not a really bug. Let's stop this thread. From: Kjetil Halvorsen [mailto:kjetilbrinchmannhalvor...@gmail.com] S

Re: [R] R's documentation

2009-05-29 Thread Romain Francois
Zheng, Xin (NIH) [C] wrote: Sometimes I get confused with R's documentation. It seems the documents is not maintained and updated well. Anyone has similar feeling? I don't mean to offend anyone. I hope R would get better and better. But documentation is really one very important factor which c

Re: [R] R's documentation

2009-05-29 Thread Kjetil Halvorsen
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Zheng, Xin (NIH) [C] < zheng...@mail.nih.gov> wrote: > Sometimes I get confused with R's documentation. It seems the documents is > not maintained and updated well. Anyone has similar feeling? I don't mean to > offend anyone. I hope R would get better and better.