> Perhaps a wider community of R users can weigh in on a > policy decision that was implicitly deemed acceptable on this > thread. Namely, that it is fine to arbitrarily and > for no reason deprecate the contributions of past > authors, and as more progress is made, even more > disparaging remarks can be added.
What is disparaging about saying "a small portion of the code is based on code written during 2005 and 2006 by Dominick Samperi"? I read this as a factual statement saying that the current version of Rcpp is based on, in a small way, your earlier work. For reference, a disparaging comment would be something like: "This package was based code written by Hadley Wickham that made my eyes bleed", or "The development of this package was driven by the godawful code that Hadley wrote". Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel