rhelp.html

<h1 id="finding-help-on-r">Finding help on R</h1>
<h2 id="from-within-r">From within R</h2>
<ul>
<li><code>?...</code>, <code>help(...)</code></li>
<li><code>??...</code>, <code>help.search(...)</code> (or <code>help.search(...,agrep=FALSE)</code> to avoid partial matching)</li>
<li><code>????...</code> (one of the <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7910270/are-there-any-easter-eggs-in-base-r-or-in-major-packages">few</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_%28media%29">Easter eggs</a> in R)</li>
<li><code>apropos(...)</code></li>
<li><code>RSiteSearch(...)</code></li>
<li><code>library(sos); findFn(...)</code></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="task-views">Task views</h2>
<ul>
<li>Task views (or <a href="http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings/R/TaskViews/">this view</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Environmetrics.html">Environmetrics</a></li>
<li><a href="http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Phylogenetics.html">Phylogeny/comparative methods</a></li>
<li><a href="http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/HighPerformanceComputing.html">High-performance</a></li>
<li><a href="http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Spatial.html">Spatial</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="mailing-lists-fora-blogs-...">Mailing lists, fora, blogs, ...</h2>
<ul>
<li>StackOverflow</li>
<li>StackExchange</li>
<li>r-help</li>
<li>r-devel</li>
<li>r-sig-ecology</li>
<li>r-sig-mixed-models</li>
<li>r-sig-phylo</li>
<li>r-sig-geo</li>
<li>ggplot google group</li>
<li>r-bloggers</li>
<li>twitter: #rstats</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="repositories">repositories</h2>
<ul>
<li>CRAN</li>
<li>R-forge</li>
<li>Bioconductor</li>
<li>github</li>
<li>googlecode</li>
</ul>