[R] The Origins of R AND CALCULUS

[Mark Difford]

>> If you have bug reports for a contributed package please take them up with
the maintainer, 
>> not the list.

Of course, Wacek is right. His observations being made with a customary
needle-like precision. It's that old conundrum about how to have your cake
and still eat it.

Regards to all, Mark.


Thomas Lumley wrote:
> 
> 
> Wacek,
> 
> If you have bug reports for a contributed package please take them up with
> the maintainer, not the list.
> 
>        -thomas
> 
> 
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote:
> 
>> Ajay ohri wrote:
>> An amusing afterthought : What is a rival software (ahem!) was planting
>> this, hoping for a divide between S and R communities.or at the very
>> minimum
>> hoping for some amusement. an assumption or even a pretense of stealing
>> credit is one of the easiest ways of sparking intellectual discord
>> Most users of softwares don't really care about who gets credit ( Who
>> wrote
>> Windows Vista ,or Mac OS or Ubuntu Linux), and the NYT is a newspaper not
>> a
>> journal.
>>
>> Does any student, or teacher for that matter care whether Newton or
>> Leibntiz
>> invented calculas.
>>
>>
> 
> supposed to be funny?  type citation() in r, you'll read:
> 
> "We have invested a lot of time and effort in creating R, please cite it
> when using it for data analysis. See also ‘citation("pkgname")’ for
> citing R packages."
> 
> why care whether newton or leibnitz invented calculus?  why care who has
> invested a lot of time and effort in this or that?
> 
> vQ
> 
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> Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
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