                            AVAILABLE R RESOURCES

FAQ
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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

A text version is in file FAQ in this directory, and an HTML version is available as file doc/html/faq.html and via the on-line help (on the index page given by help.start()).

Mailing lists
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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 of the mailing lists are made available monthly; see the doc/mail/mail.html file on any CRAN node.  An HTML archive is available via http://www.ens.gu.edu.au/robertk/R/.

Archives
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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.dk.r-project.org/
          (SunSITE, Denmark)

     http://cran.hu.r-project.org/
          (Semmelweis University, Hungary)

     http://cran.uk.r-project.org/
          (University of Bristol, UK)

     http://cran.us.r-project.org/
          (University of Wisconsin, USA)

     http://cran.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/
          (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, 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.

Bug-tracking system
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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.