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@w{                            }AVAILABLE R RESOURCES
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<TITLE>R: Resources</TITLE>
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<h1>Other Resources
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@node Top, FAQ, (dir), (dir)

@menu
* FAQ::                         
* Mailing lists::               
* Archives::                    
* Bug-tracking system::         
@end menu

@node FAQ, Mailing lists, Top, Top
@chapter FAQ

A collection of @uref{faq.html, , Frequently Asked Questions} and their
answers is maintained by @email{Kurt.Hornik@@r-project.org, Kurt Hornik}
and can be found at the @acronym{URL}

@quotation
@uref{http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html}
@end quotation

@ifinfo
A text version is in file @file{FAQ} in this directory, and an
@acronym{HTML} version is available as file @file{doc/html/faq.html} and
via the on-line help (on the index page given by @code{help.start()}).
@end ifinfo

@node Mailing lists, Archives, FAQ, Top
@chapter Mailing lists

Thanks to @email{Martin.Maechler@@r-project.org, Martin Maechler} there
are number of mailing lists which are used by R users and developers.
They are

@quotation
@table @uref
@item r-announce@@lists.r-project.org
announcements of new R releases or applications;
@item r-help@@lists.r-project.org
general inquiries and discussion about R;
@item r-devel@@lists.r-project.org
discussions about the future of R and pre-testing of new versions.
@end table
@end quotation

To subscribe (or unsubscribe) to these mailing lists send
@samp{subscribe} (or @samp{unsubscribe}) in the @emph{body} of the
message (not in the subject!) to

@quotation
@uref{r-announce-request@@lists.r-project.org} @*
@uref{r-help-request@@lists.r-project.org}     @*
@uref{r-devel-request@@lists.r-project.org}
@end quotation

@ifinfo
Archives of the mailing lists are made available monthly; see the
@file{doc/mail/mail.html} file on any CRAN node.  An @acronym{HTML}
archive is available via @uref{http://www.ens.gu.edu.au/robertk/R/}.
@end ifinfo

@node Archives, Bug-tracking system, Mailing lists, Top
@chapter Archives

The Comprehensive R Archive Network (@acronym{CRAN}) is a collection of
sites which carry identical material, consisting of the R
distribution(s), the contributed extensions, documentation for R, and
binaries. It is currently mirrored daily at

@table @asis
@item @uref{http://cran.au.r-project.org/}
PlanetMirror,  Australia 
@item @uref{http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/CRAN/}
AARNet (accessible only from Australia and New Zealand)

@item @uref{http://cran.at.r-project.org/}
TU Wien, Austria

@item @uref{ http://cran.br.r-project.org}
Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brasil
@item @uref{http://www.termix.ufv.br/CRAN/}
Federal University of Vicosa, Brasil

@item @uref{http://cran.dk.r-project.org/}
SunSITE, Denmark

@item @uref{http://cran.hu.r-project.org/}
Semmelweis University, Hungary 

@item @uref{ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/lang/R/CRAN/}
University of Aizu, Japan

@item @uref{http://cran.za.r-project.org/}
Rhodes University, South Africa

@item @uref{http://cran.ch.r-project.org/}
ETH Zurich, Switzerland

@item @uref{http://cran.uk.r-project.org/}
University of Bristol, UK

@item @uref{http://cran.us.r-project.org/}
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
@item @uref{http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/}
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
@item @uref{http://www.bioconductor.org/CRAN/}
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
@item @uref{http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/}
Statlib, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA
@item @uref{ http://mirrors.theonlinerecordstore.com/CRAN/}
The Online Record Store, Houston, TX, USA
@end table

Many of these sites can also be accessed using FTP.  In the interests of
preserving international bandwidth please use a site near you if
possible.

The @acronym{CRAN} master site at TU Wien, Austria, can be found at the
@acronym{URL}s

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@multitable @columnfractions .55 .40
@item @uref{http://cran.r-project.org/}
@item @uref{ftp://cran.r-project.org/pub/R/}
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@end quotation

and is also available for anonymous rsync at
@samp{cran.r-project.org::CRAN}.

@node Bug-tracking system,  , Archives, Top
@chapter Bug-tracking system

R has a bug-tracking system (or perhaps a bug-filing system is a more
precise description) available on the net at

@quotation
@uref{http://bugs.r-project.org/}
@end quotation

and via e-mail to @email{r-bugs@@r-project.org}.  The R function
@code{bug.report()} can be used to invoke an editor from a within an R
session and send the report to the right address.  It also fills in some
basic information, such as your R version and operating system, which
has proved helpful in the debugging process.

The source distribution has a file @file{BUGS} at the top level giving a
summary of the entries at the time this distribution was prepared.

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