# Other Resources

## FAQ

A collection of Frequently Asked Questions and their answers is maintained by Kurt Hornik and can be found at

> http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html

## Mailing Lists

Thanks to Martin Maechler there are number of mailing lists which are used by R users and developers:

- r-announce@stat.math.ethz.ch: announcements of new R releases or applications
- r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch: general inquiries and discussion about R
- r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch: a "hackers" list for discussions of R internals and testing.

To subscribe (or unsubscribe) to these mailing list send subscribe (or unsubscribe) (in the "body", not the subject !) to:

- r-announce-request@stat.math.ethz.ch
- r-help-request@stat.math.ethz.ch
- r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch

## Archives

The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) is a collection of sites which carry identical material, consisting of the R distribution(s), the contributed extensions, documentation for R, and binaries.

The CRAN master site can be found at

> http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/R | (Austria)

and is currently being mirrored daily at

> http://www.stat.unipg.it/pub/stat/statlib/R/CRAN | (Italy)
> ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/lang/R/CRAN | (Japan)
> http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/CRAN | (Switzerland)
> http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN | (U.S.A.)
> ftp://franz.stat.wisc.edu/pub/R | (U.S.A.)
> ftp://ftp.biostat.washington.edu/mirrors/R/CRAN | (U.S.A.)

Last modified: January 26, 1998 by Friedrich Leisch