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.

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, 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://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, 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.

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.