This is just a thought that has occurred to me. I don't know if it is an "Oh, WOW!" or an "Are you KIDDING?!?" type thought. So I thought I'd ask here.
I use github for a few things. Nothing great, but maybe nice. Anyway, one feature of GitHub is the GIST feature. What I am used to github being for is a project consisting of many complete files. A gist can contain many files, but is really for a set of snippets. Such as code sequences. Or maybe the output from a dput(). If I have a "big" problem where I think that having all the data and my attempted solutions available, I think it would be far kinder of me to put a _good_ synopsis of the problem here on the list. And a clickable URL to the gist I have created for the problem. That would decrease the bandwidth on the email server. And save space on it. And, lets face it, in many cases only a few people are going to really look at any given problem "in depth", so why have a huge email go out to the entire community? My idea may not be useful, I really am not sure. But my motive is trying to keep everybody's inbox from overflowing. And make it easier to supply really good data, but only to those who are interested. Thanks for any feedback. -- There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people! Genghis Khan Maranatha! <>< John McKown ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.