Rolf: I'm in the odd position of having run the modest IT department at my lab for five years, which (when I took it over) included my small statistics team, since split out. So I'm a gamekeeper turned poacher.
Stavros wasn't wrong; these are all genuine issues for an IT manager. I can think of a couple of others, too. But the difference between a mere tyrant and a good IT manager (who may be a tyrant as well) is that the latter treats them as issues to be resolved if necessary, and the former as excuses to justify an entrenched position. A point that is probably worth making; if you're an IT manager and two or more packages can apparently do a user's job well, you would certainly see the _user_ as a tyrant if they insisted dogmatically on one over the other. There are probably R tyrants out there somewhere too. Steve E >>> Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> 02/02/2009 20:14 >>> >I would just like to say that in my very humble opinion Stavros's >reply was utter nonsense. It was the sort of excuse-making favoured >by tyrants since time immemorial. ******************************************************************* This email and any attachments are confidential. Any use...{{dropped:8}} ______________________________________________ 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.