AVAILABLE R RESOURCES


1 FAQ
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A collection of Frequently Asked Questions and their answers is maintained
by Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@r-project.org> and can be found at the URL

     `http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html'

A text version is in file `FAQ' in this directory, and an HTML version is
available as file `doc/html/faq.html' and via the on-line help (on the
index page given by `help.start()').

2 Mailing lists
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Thanks to Martin Maechler <Martin.Maechler@r-project.org> there are number
of mailing lists which are used by R users and developers.  They are

    `r-announce@lists.r-project.org'
          announcements of new R releases or applications;

    `r-help@lists.r-project.org'
          general inquiries and discussion about R;

    `r-devel@lists.r-project.org'
          discussions about the future of R and pre-testing of new versions.

To subscribe (or unsubscribe) to these mailing lists send `subscribe' (or
`unsubscribe') in the _body_ of the message (not in the subject!) to

     `r-announce-request@lists.r-project.org'
     `r-help-request@lists.r-project.org'
     `r-devel-request@lists.r-project.org'

Archives of the mailing lists are made available monthly; see the
`doc/mail/mail.html' file on any CRAN node.  An HTML archive is available
via `http://www.ens.gu.edu.au/robertk/R/'.

3 Archives
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The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) is a collection of sites which
carry identical material, consisting of the R distribution(s), the
contributed extensions, documentation for R, and binaries.

CRAN also contains a _daily_ snapshots of the latest R sources.

The CRAN master site at TU Wien, Austria, can be found at the URLs

     `http://cran.r-project.org/'            
     `ftp://cran.r-project.org/pub/R/'       

and is also available for anonymous rsync at `cran.r-project.org::CRAN'.

It is currently mirrored daily at

    `http://cran.at.r-project.org/'
          (TU Wien, Austria)

    `http://cran.au.r-project.org/'
          (PlanetMirror, Australia)

    `http://cran.ch.r-project.org/'
          (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

    `http://cran.de.r-project.org/'
          (APP, Germany)

    `http://cran.dk.r-project.org/'
          (SunSITE, Denmark)

    `http://cran.hu.r-project.org/'
          (Semmelweis University, Hungary)

    `http://cran.uk.r-project.org/'
          (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)

    `http://cran.us.r-project.org/'
          (University of Wisconsin, U.S.A.)

    `http://cran.za.r-project.org/'
          (Rhodes University, South Africa)

    `http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/CRAN/'
          (AARNet, Australia [accessible only from Australia and New
          Zealand])

    `ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/lang/R/CRAN/'
          (University of Aizu, Japan)

    `http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/'
          (Statlib, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.)

    `http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/'
          (University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.)

Many of these sites can also be accessed using FTP.  In the interests of
preserving international bandwidth please use a site near you if possible.

4 Bug-tracking system
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R has a bug-tracking system (or perhaps a bug-filing system is a more
precise description) available on the net at

     `http://bugs.r-project.org/'

and via e-mail to <r-bugs@r-project.org>.  The R function `bug.report()'
can be used to invoke an editor from a within an R session and send the
report to the right address.  It also fills in some basic information, such
as your R version and operating system, which has proved helpful in the
debugging process.

The source distribution has a file `BUGS' at the top level giving a summary
of the entries at the time this distribution was prepared.