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
Thanks to Martin Maechler 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.
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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.
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.