On Jul 25, 2012, at 8:50 AM, David L Carlson wrote:
We often refer requesters to the Posting Guide and chide them for not
reading it. Recently I had occasion to re-read the Posting Guide
which is
for all R lists not just R-help. The word "reproducible" does not
appear
anywhere in the guide. The closest it comes is the following
suggestion:
"Sometimes it helps to provide a small example that someone can
actually
run."
Recommendations to use the function dput() to provide sample data do
not
appear in the guide.
The absence of dput from the PG is a bit surprisong, but an equivalent
bit of advice does appear:
"When providing examples, it is best to give an R command that
constructs the data, as in the matrix() expression above. For more
complicated data structures, dump("x", file=stdout()) will print an
expression that will recreate the object x. "
--
David.
The bottom of messages to R-help does contain the statement you've
all seen,
but I had assumed it summarized advice found elsewhere since first
time
posters may not see the message until after they have posted.
"PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented,
minimal,
self-contained, reproducible code."
The Mailing Lists page describes R-help but refers only to the
posting guide
http://www.r-project.org/mail.html and does not include this advisory
statement.
The R-help Info Page also refers only to the posting guide
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help and does not include this
advisory statement.
I hesitate to sound too optimistic, but there might be some
advantage in
making the statement more prominent and adding a reproducible
example using
dput().
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David L Carlson
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4352
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