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darenw

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From: Trego Montana

Registered: 2008-07-04

Posts: 106

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Search for 'r'?

How to search these forums for posts about  that new-fangled statistics thing, 'R'?   

Search won't take single letter names.    Of course, 'R' is hardly the only interesting piece of software like that.  Languages 'C' and  'D' can be trouble too.  One workaround, for those who already have a glue, is search for related terms like 'gcc' or a keyword in the language e.g. 'struct', but what is a total ignoramus noob to do?   Probably need a "whole word" option for search.

Someday, someone is going to invent a nice piece of software and name it after the space character...then things will get interesting.

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Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: Search for 'r'?

As an aside, you will probably not find anything useful related to R here.  I recommend google, which is surprisingly for a 1 letter search term...

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n0dix

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 956

Re: Search for 'r'?

Doing a search like, 'R CRAN' or 'R statics', but obviously not in the forum. With only R you will find more trash.

Last edited by n0dix (2010-02-13 14:46:08)

thisoldman

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2009-04-25

Posts: 1,172

Re: Search for 'r'?

Allan, as usual, is correct.  R isn't much discussed here.

This search in Google gives only 16 hits:

site:bbs.archlinux.org "cran" OR "R language" OR "R project" OR "R software"

The same search, without the site qualifier, gives over 4,000.000 hits.

darenw

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From: Trego Montana

Registered: 2008-07-04

Posts: 106

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Re: Search for 'r'?

thisoldman - you found 16 more results than I could usefully obtain!

This "cran" term is new to me, beyond my meager ability to guess. With that magic token, I believe doors will open.

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fileunderwater

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Registered: 2009-11-08

Posts: 21

Re: Search for 'r'?

If you want to learn more about R look at the fairly active mailing lists, some specializing in certain subjects such as mixed models.

http://www.r-project.org/mail.html

Last edited by fileunderwater (2010-02-13 23:57:33)

JackH79

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From: Australia

Registered: 2009-06-18

Posts: 663

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Re: Search for 'r'?

You can also have a look at this :
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html
It's quite comprehensive and answered many of my questions.