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? building a database with a the great examples

2 messages · Frank, Jonathan Baron

Frank
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Dear R help reader,

I'm not an expert in R and are lerning a lot by reading the help 
digest, which is sometimes difficult because the huge amount of data 
posted. I have posted some questions before, and  are impressed how 
quick I got a solution for my problem. Sometimes with quite different 
suggestions. I was always wondering if my questions didn't come up 
before. On the other site, it wasn't easy to search the help archive, 
purely I didn't know how to formulate my problem.
I'm wondering if we could not collect all the answers / examples in a 
database -
sorted in topics, like the help document "Rtips".
I have no clue if this is possible to do nor how time consuming the 
maintaining would be.

This is just my view how the help list could be improved

Yours
Frank
Jonathan Baron
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On 05/28/03 20:09, Frank Mattes wrote:
On the other site, it wasn't easy to search the help archive,
As the maintainer of one of the sites you might search, I do
think that this would be time consuming and also somewhat
redundant with the many textbooks and introductory documents that
are available.  Also, it isn't clear to me how you would search
the "tips" except by using the same sort of search terms that you
can use now.  (But if someone can think of a way to solve these
problems, I don't want to stop him or her from implementing this
idea!)

I find the htdig interface that I use fairly powerful.  You can
use phrases and logic (AND, OR, etc.).  Often a fairly general
search turns up something that gives me a hint about what search
terms I should have used.