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I might be interested in learning R if I knew what it was. Even the webpage doesn't explain what it is until you watch one of the videos.

I see this all the time on software-related websites. They launch into the technical details without even one sentence about what it is. I could give a whole bunch of examples here but I think everyone has experienced this.

Please include something like the following on the webpage and--if there's space--in the headline too:

"R (a programming language for statistics)"

I don't mean to single out the guy who did these great tutorials. I mean this for everybody. If your software product/OS/service/language is not Photoshop, Linux, Google, or Java, then write a couple of words right at the top to explain what it is please.

parent alister 14 years ago

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