[R] R Documentation(s)

[Shigeru Mase]

Dear R users,

This may be an almost useless information to  a.e of you, but may be
interesting to those in Japanese. There is a small ML called "(unofficial) R-jp"
in Japan planning to translate various R documentations into Japanese.
(Without doubts, Japanese prefers to read documentations in Japanese
than in English!) Up to now,  the product is only the translation of the
official LaTeX manual of R and we are now translating R's html help files.

The source (and also dvi, ps, pdf) LaTeX files are at

http://www.md.tsukuba.ac.jp/epidemiology/ML/R-jp/

It is a shame (or rather reasonable?) that this project was first proposed by
those users who want to use R in their researches and business, not by
professional statisticians in Japan.

We are very impressed by the speed of revisions of R and are afraid not to
be able to  keep up with its speed. Anyhow we want to express our thanks
to those R-developpers and hope to contribute to R itself in future (a possible
main difficulty is our general deficiency in writing readable English).

It is a good news that we have now the R programming book by Prof.'s Venables
and Ripley. I am looking forward to reading it.

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Shigeru MASE <mase at is.titech.ac.jp>,
Dept. of Math. and Comp. Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology,
Oo-Okayama, 2-12-1, Meguroku, Tokyo, 152-8552, Japan
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Ko-Kang Wang wrote:

> ..............

>
> It will be great if we can start of having a Chinese translation?  I'll be quite
> happy to do it, but if I'm the only one doing it it will take quite some time to
> translate the whole "An Introduction to R" into Chinese...
>
> >
> >
> > Finally, is it possible to set a system of documentation that is able to
> > track the development of the software? I am personnally impressed by the
> > pace of release of new versions of R.

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