R Documentation(s)

Dear R users,

This may be an almost useless information to  a.e of you, but may be
interesting to those in Japanese. There is a small ML called "(unofficial) R-jp"
in Japan planning to translate various R documentations into Japanese.
(Without doubts, Japanese prefers to read documentations in Japanese
than in English!) Up to now,  the product is only the translation of the
official LaTeX manual of R and we are now translating R's html help files.

The source (and also dvi, ps, pdf) LaTeX files are at

http://www.md.tsukuba.ac.jp/epidemiology/ML/R-jp/

It is a shame (or rather reasonable?) that this project was first proposed by
those users who want to use R in their researches and business, not by
professional statisticians in Japan.

We are very impressed by the speed of revisions of R and are afraid not to
be able to  keep up with its speed. Anyhow we want to express our thanks
to those R-developpers and hope to contribute to R itself in future (a possible
main difficulty is our general deficiency in writing readable English).

It is a good news that we have now the R programming book by Prof.'s Venables
and Ripley. I am looking forward to reading it.

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Shigeru MASE <mase at is.titech.ac.jp>,
Dept. of Math. and Comp. Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology,
Oo-Okayama, 2-12-1, Meguroku, Tokyo, 152-8552, Japan
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It will be great if we can start of having a Chinese translation?  I'll be quite
happy to do it, but if I'm the only one doing it it will take quite some time to
translate the whole "An Introduction to R" into Chinese...

Finally, is it possible to set a system of documentation that is able to
track the development of the software? I am personnally impressed by the
pace of release of new versions of R.

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