Other Resources

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

Mailing lists

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.

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

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. It is currently mirrored daily at

http://cran.au.r-project.org/

PlanetMirror, Australia

http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/CRAN/

AARNet (accessible only from Australia and New Zealand)

http://cran.at.r-project.org/

TU Wien, Austria

http://cran.br.r-project.org

Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brasil

http://www.termix.ufv.br/CRAN/

Federal University of Vicosa, Brasil

http://lmq.esalq.usp.br/CRAN/

University of Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, Brasil

http://probability.ca/cran/

University of Toronto, Canada

http://cran.dk.r-project.org/

SunSITE, Denmark

http://cran.hu.r-project.org/

Semmelweis University, Hungary

ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/lang/R/CRAN/

University of Aizu, Japan

http://cran.za.r-project.org/

Rhodes University, South Africa

http://cran.es.r-project.org/

Spanish National Research Network, Madrid, Spain

http://cran.ch.r-project.org/

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

http://cran.uk.r-project.org/

University of Bristol, UK

http://cran.us.r-project.org/

University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/

University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

http://www.bioconductor.org/CRAN/

Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA

http://cran.get-software.com

Get-Software.com, Augusta, ME, USA

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/CRAN/

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/

Statlib, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA

http://cran.mirrors.pair.com/

Pair Networks, PA, USA

http://www.binarycode.org/cran

BinaryCode.org, Austin, TX, USA

http://mirrors.mix5.com/CRAN/

Mix5.com, Houston, TX, USA

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.

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.

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://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.