[R] Digest reading is tedious

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Trevor" == Trevor Hastie <hastie at stanford.edu>
>>>>>     on Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:27:32 -0700 writes:

    Trevor> Like many, I am sure, I get R-Help in digest
    Trevor> form. Its easy enough to browse the subject lines,
    Trevor> but then if an entry interests you, you have to
    Trevor> embark on this tedious search or scroll to find it.
    Trevor> It would be great to have a "clickable" digest,
    Trevor> where the topics list is a set of pointers, and
    Trevor> clicking on a topic takes you to that entry. I can
    Trevor> think of at least one way to do this via web pages,
    Trevor> but I bet those with more web skills than me can
    Trevor> come up with an elegant solution.

But that has been an option in mailman, the software behind our
mailing lists  --- for ages ---

I'm astonished none of the funny responses would mention this,
and I'm further astonished I have to explain such simple things
to such smart people ;-)

Please open the URL at the end of every message
   https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
go to the bottom  and "log in"  -- clicking the [Unsubscribe or Edit Options] 
field.  You need your mailing list password sooner or later.
The one you get sent every 1st of the month; or you can have it
sent to you again.

Then you are in a page entitled
     "R-help Membership Configuration for  <foo>@<bar"
Scroll down to the section 
       "Your R-help Subscription"
where the 3rd entry is entitled
      Get MIME or Plain Text Digests?
and now you want MIME.


I hope this helps,
Martin