[Rd] apologies (was RE: [R] ISOdate() and strptime())

[Simon Fear]

Dear Brian and other R-developers,

I have to say that I don't understand why what I wrote should 
have caused any offence. A smile was what I was hoping for. 
You know I devote more time than I am supposed to, to support 
R and its users, in partial repayment of my immeasurable debt to 
all the Developers.  It's not much, it's sometimes misguided (I later 
discover), and my resources are severely limited, but I do try. 
I hope not to be seen as an enemy. So, if you can explain to 
me what was wrong about my tongue in cheek criticism of R's 
relying on my notoriously unreliable OS, in notoriously unreliable 
circumstances, I will indeed publicly apologise.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
<snip>
> I believe Simon Fear owes the R-developers a public apology 
> for his (not
> properly referenced in the archives) reply to this thread.
> 
> BDR  
 
Simon Fear 
Senior Statistician 
Syne qua non Ltd 
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