[R] Web Site Suggestion Regarding R Source

[Gabor Grothendieck]

In the Lua language they have put the entire source on the net in 
such a way that you can easily browse it.  Go to:

   http://www.lua.org/source/5.0/

to see what I mean.

One of the nice things about R is that if you want more info on 
a function than in the help page you can just type the name of 
the function at the R prompt and you get its source, at least if 
it itself was written in R.  Methods complicate this a bit but its
still relatively easy to get the source.

Unfortunately, for someone trying to find out what a function 
does, the real work may be done in C in which case you come to a 
dead end.  Admittedly its possible to get the source but 
this requires a bit of work (downloading large files, figuring
out rsync) and some hunting around.

If the R source were placed on the net in a similar fashion to Lua 
I think this would make it more accessible and help people help
themselves by making it easier to answer many questions 
themselves that they currently have to go to rhelp for.



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