Subject: [R] French IRC channel and mailing list ? From: Julien Barnier Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:10:06 +0100 To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Dear all, For some time now, R is becomming more and more popular in more and more countries. France is for sure one of them, but french people being french one of the obstacle they might tackle is the lack of documentation and support in their native language. To offer this support in french an IRC channel (#Rfr on irc.freenode.net) was created some months ago, beside the official english channel #R. We (me (~juba) and Pierre-Yves Chibon (~pingou)) have to recognize that it has a very low activity right now but it's related to our lack of promotion about it. Another tool that could be useful to bring support in french (and other languages) would be dedicated mailing-lists. I've searched the archives to see if similar requests have already been made but couldn't manage to find one. So I would like to ask here the question, has there been any thought on the creation of dedicated R-help mailing-lists for the major languages such as Spanish, French, Chinese and others ? We had some thought about it and we actually think that it would be something useful for users to be able to receive some help (especially when their english is not really fluent). Thanks in advance for your answers, Sincerely, Pierre-Yves Chibon Julien Barnier ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.