[R] protentially serious R error

David L Carlson dcarlson at tamu.edu
Sat Dec 1 18:54:50 CET 2012


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David L Carlson
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4352

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Ben Bolker
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 7:19 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] protentially serious R error
> 
> Cutting and pasting from the R posting guide -- I think this advice
> has special force when responding to FAQ 7.31 questions (I've seen
> several within the last few days, and at least two were answered by
> three different people:
> 
> When responding to a very simple question, use the following algorithm:
> 
>     compose your response
>     type 4*runif(1) at the R prompt, and wait this many hours
>     check for new posts to R-help; if no similar suggestion, post your
> response
> 
> (This is partly in jest, but if you know immediately why it is
> suggested, you
> probably should use it! Also, it's a nice idea to replace 4 by the
> number of
> years you have been using R or S-plus.)
> 
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