Re: [R] newbie list

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From: A.J. Rossini (rossini@blindglobe.net)
Date: Thu 30 Aug 2001 - 02:55:09 EST 

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>>>>> "PD" == Peter Dalgaard <BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk>> writes:

    PD> One thing that has crossed my mind more than a few times is
    PD> that the Tcl crowd use something called a Wiki which is a sort
    PD> of multiauthor document (http://mini.net/tcl/) and I've been
    PD> wondering whether we might have something similar for R. This
    PD> structure might be useful at the development level as
    PD> well. Not that I don't have other things to do...

Wikis are great. I've used them on a number of projects.

Highly searchable, etc, etc.

But... access, having people enter stuff, and the fact that everything
tends to be free-form are disadvantages. There are knowledge-base
products and FAQs available, but they suffer from similar problems....

best,
-tony 

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