Is Sahotra's abuse sending a wishlist item to R-bugs, or is his error phrasing a suggestion in the form of a question? It seems others have commented on the inability to specify df for chisq.test (see: http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/05/01/10539.html), and adding an option certainly seems like a reasonable suggestion to me.
And of course, R-FAQ 9.2 does explicitly give a standard for reporting wishlist or non-bug items to the R-bugs: "There is a section of the bug repository for suggestions for enhancements for R labelled `wishlist'. Suggestions can be submitted in the same ways as bugs, but please ensure that the subject line makes clear that this is for the wishlist and not a bug report, for example by starting with `Wishlist:'." So if your qualm is with how onerous and manual the R bugs tracking system is, rather than if the sender sent his question/comment to the wrong list or in the wrong form, then perhaps an upgrade to the R bug tracker is in order rather than discouraging sending wishlist items to the bugs archiving system. Robert -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kasper Daniel Hansen Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: R-devel Subject: Re: [Rd] Chi-squared test (PR#9350) (not cc'ed to R-bugs) If this is not a bug why do you abuse the bug report system to ask a simple question? Now a member of R-core has to use valuable time to handle this bug report, time that could be far more profitable spent making improvements to R (or spend it otherwise). This is incredible selfish behavior. Kasper On Nov 7, 2006, at 5:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Sahotra Sarkar > Version: 2.2.0 > OS: Windows XP > Submission from: (NULL) (128.83.34.44) > > > This is not a bug: I'm just wondering why chisq.test does not allow > the > specification of the degree of freedom (df). > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel