[R] R 2.0.0 is not suffisantly reliable to be used

Fan xiao.gang.fan1 at libertysurf.fr
Mon Oct 11 01:16:55 CEST 2004


WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU, SIR ?

Perhaps you're expecting some sort of congratulations for that new
release ?  I've taken time to download it, test it, and
I've said what I've got to say.

You're helping nobody with that sort of "process of intention".
--
Fan

Liaw, Andy wrote:
>>From: Fan
>>
>>After wasting one whole day, I've finally decided to stay with 1.9.1,
>>some problems have been reported to R-Bugs.
>>
>>For occasional users, I would say, there's no worst thing than that:
>>you installed the new release, and soem of your existing codes no
>>longer work !
> 
> 
> Given the attitude that you've taken, I'd guess you do not deserve the
> improvements introduced in R-2.0.0.  If you are at all serious about having
> your code working with R-2.0.0, you would have tested it in the alpha/beta
> cycle, and try to resolve it before the official release, rather than
> ranting about it after the fact.  Most people know better, and will not
> appreciate how you denigrate R-core's effort.
> 
> Andy
> 
> ps: If it's too hard for you to learn to spell, at least learn to use a
> spell checker.
> 
> 
>>--
>>Fan
>>
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