[R] Appropriate forum for announcing R package updates

[Frank Harrell]

Thank you Marc
Frank

Marc Schwartz-3 wrote
> On Jul 10, 2013, at 1:29 PM, Frank Harrell <

> f.harrell@

> > wrote:
> 
>> I have been confused about the appropriate e-mail address to use to make
>> announcements to r-help for major package update.  In the past I've
>> submitted to 

> R-packages at .r-project

>  without seeing the announcement appear on r-help.
>> 
>> Thanks for any guidance.
>> Frank
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Frank,
> 
> R-packages (https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages) should be
> the correct list for those announcements.
> 
> A quick check of a few recent posts shows that they are being forwarded to
> R-Help as well.
> 
> It is however a low volume list. 116 posts in 2010, 77 in 2011, 72 in 2012
> and 25 so far in 2013. The trend would seem to be downward.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marc Schwartz
> 
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Frank Harrell
Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
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