[R] Web forum - should I make one?

[Vojtěch Zeisek]

Hello

Dne Út 21. září 2010 11:55:02 Marc Schwartz napsal(a):
> Before creating yet another R discussion venue, you may wish to look at:
> 
>   http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/r

My idea was about something like this, but more complex,  with categories and 
tools. And only for R. :-) This looks like general developers discussion. When 
I go to front page, it is hard to find anything about R...  And also I aimed 
to make it an official part of R's infrastructure (after talking to 
responsible people, of course).

Well, if You think the niche is filled, never mind, but I think R should have 
an official web forum. It can be stackoverflow (then I'd expect links from 
main R pages to it) or I (or someone else) can create it. Still, I think it is 
good idea to create one... More opinions?

> The R-* e-mail lists are the "official" venues and you can read/post via
> e-mail. There are also other means of interacting with the e-mail lists
> using Gmane and Nabble.

Mailman is very good tool, but not for everything. And IMHO many people are 
more used to search, ask and work on forums than on mailinglists.	

> However, the Stack Overflow R forum has evolved as an independent online
> presence in the recent past, as an alternative for folks who prefer that
> mode of interaction.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Marc Schwartz
> 
> On Sep 21, 2010, at 11:40 AM, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:
> > Did you look at:
> > http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php
> > ?

Wiki is not tool I mean. Well, I found there only one not working link and one 
link to mostly Chinese forum... So nothing useful, I thing.

> > Kjetil

Best regards,
Vojtěch Zeisek

> > 2010/9/21 Vojtěch Zeisek <vojtech.zeisek na opensuse.org>:
> >> Hello,
> >> this might be little off-topic, but still... I have not found any
> >> official web forum for R users. Did I look good? If not, I'm sorry and
> >> shame on me! :-) Such forums are very probably the most common way to
> >> share information about all sorts of problems, to ask and get answer.
> >> See http://forums.opensuse.org/ as an example. Admins, developers,
> >> users, do You think to have such forum would be useful? If yes, I can
> >> create and manage it. If You have any idea about its possible
> >> functionality and content, let me know. If it would help R community, I
> >> will invest my time and energy to it. :-)
> >> Best regards,
> >> --
> >> Vojtěch Zeisek
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