AVAILABLE R RESOURCES

1. FAQ

A collection of Frequently Asked Questions and their answers is
maintained by Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> and can be
found at the URL

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


2. MAILING LISTS

Thanks to Martin Maechler there are number of mailing lists which
are used by R users and developers.  The list

	r-announce@stat.math.ethz.ch 	announcements of new R releases
					or applications,

	r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch	general inquiries and discussion
					about R.

	r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch	a "hackers" list for discussions
					of R internals and testing.

To subscribe (or unsubscribe) to these mailing list send

	subscribe  (or unsubscribe)

(in the "body", not the subject !) to:

	r-announce-request@stat.math.ethz.ch
	r-help-request@stat.math.ethz.ch
	r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch


3. ARCHIVES

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.

The CRAN master site can be found at the URL

        ftp://ftp.ci.tuwien.ac.at/pub/R         (Austria)

and is currently being mirrored daily at

	http://www.stat.unipg.it/pub/stat/statlib/R/CRAN	(Italy)
	ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/lang/R/CRAN			(Japan)
        http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/CRAN			(Switzerland)
        http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN				(U.S.A.)
        ftp://franz.stat.wisc.edu/pub/R				(U.S.A.)
	ftp://ftp.biostat.washington.edu/mirrors/R/CRAN		(U.S.A.)