Web based R-help not a list
On Nov 10, 2011, at 7:38 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Cem Girit <girit at biopticon.com> wrote:
Somebody suggested "Stackoverflow" problems as well. These could all be avoided.
I think you misunderstood the mention of 'Stackoverflow'. This is a solution, not a problem! StackOverflow (www.stackoverflow.com) is a question-and-answer website for programmers questions, part of the 'Stack Exchange' network of Q&A sites. Questions on R programming are often asked there, and live quite happily amongst the C, Python, Java etc questions. Questions (and answers) can have rich text, maths, images etc, included, can be edited, ranked, bookmarked, deleted, tagged, marked as duplicate, flagged as useless etc etc by the users. As with any community there's some rules - for example don't ask a question thats mostly statistical (with a bit of R) on www.stackoverflow.com - that should go to www.crossvalidated.com. And as usual, try and create examples that people can cut and paste to duplicate your problem. Head on over, sign up, and ask!
But one IS expected to: a) search at (least on SO before posting). Questions that duplicate existing Q&A's will be quickly "closed". b) read the guidelines:
There's also a chat forum: http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/106/r Barry
David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT