Mailing Lists

Thanks to Martin Maechler, there are three mailing lists devoted to R:

r-announce
This list is for announcements about the development of R and the availability of new code.
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r-devel
This list is for discussions about the future of R and pre-testing of new versions. It is meant for those who maintain an active position in the development of R.
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Archives: 1997 1998 1999 2000
 
r-help
The `main' R mailing list, for announcements about the development of R and the availability of new code, questions and answers about problems and solutions using R, enhancements and patches to the source code and documentation of R, comparison and compatibility with S and S-plus, and for the posting of nice examples and, benchmarks.
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Archives: 1997 1998 1999 2000

General Instructions

To send a message to everyone on the r-help mailing list, send email to r-help@lists.R-project.org .

To subscribe (or unsubscribe) to this list send ``subscribe'' (or ``unsubscribe'') in the body of the message (not in the subject!) to r-help-request@lists.R-project.org . Information about the list can be obtained by sending an email with ``info'' as its contents to r-help-request@lists.R-project.org .

Subscription and posting to the other lists is done analogously, with `r-help' replaced by `r-announce' and `r-devel', respectively. Note that the r-announce list is gatewayed into r-help, so you don't need to subscribe to both of them.

It is recommended that you send mail to r-help rather than only to the R developers (who are also subscribed to the list, of course). This may save them precious time they can use for constantly improving R, and will typically also result in much quicker feedback for yourself.

Of course, in the case of bug reports it would be very helpful to have code which reliably reproduces the problem.

List Digests

Subscriptions to `r-help' and `r-devel' are also available in digest format. With this option, several messages are compiled into a single message for convenient reading by those who do not prefer immediate receipt of individual messages. To get messages in digest format, subscribe to the separate digest lists `r-help-digest' and `r-devel-digest', respectively. You do not need to be subscribed to the regular lists if you subscribe the digest lists (and vice versa). E.g., to subscribe to r-help in digest format, send an email with the word ``subscribe'' in the body of the message (not in the subject!) to r-help-digest-request@lists.R-project.org.

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Last modified: September 20, 2000 by Friedrich Leisch