AVAILABLE R RESOURCES 1. FAQ A collection of Frequently Asked Questions and their answers is maintained by Kurt Hornik 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's http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/R or ftp://ftp.ci.tuwien.ac.at/pub/R/ (Austria) and is currently being mirrored at http://SunSITE.auc.dk/R/ (Denmark) http://www.stat.unipg.it/pub/stat/statlib/R/CRAN/ (Italy) ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/lang/R/CRAN/ (Japan) ftp://dola.snu.ac.kr/pub/R/CRAN/ (South Korea) http://stat.ethz.ch/R-CRAN/ (Switzerland) http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/ (USA/Pennsylvania) ftp://ftp.biostat.washington.edu/mirrors/R/CRAN/ (USA/Washington) http://cran.stat.wisc.edu/ (USA/Wisconsin) 4. BUG-TRACKING SYSTEM R has a bug-tracking system (or perhaps a bug-filing system is a more precise description) available on the net at http://r-bugs.biostat.ku.dk and via e-mail to r-bugs@biostat.ku.dk. 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 may be helpful in the debugging process.