On Tue, 23-Dec-2003 at 05:31AM +0100, Eryk Wolski wrote: [....]
|> I cooled down now and therefore give me a chance to explain why |> that user guide scares me. A few comments: |> As I said, the guide had given me the feeling that someone wants to |> censor me. You mean you reacted in a way that gave you that feeling. Let's get cause and effect straight. |> Especially the first section of the Posting Guide: "How to ask good |> questions that prompt useful answers" does this. The guide starts |> with talking mainly about what you should not, or what you must not |> do. If I want something to work, I take notice of what the suppliers suggest is a good way to get it to work. I never take such suggestions as being prescriptive. Once I know more about it, I feel free to disregard any of them. Posters can ignore anything in the guide if they so wish. Robust debate gets the brain working, but some feathers might get ruffled in the process. |> At last I like to mention one important source of help which are missing |> in the posting guide, and which I forgot these days by myself: R CMD -help |> and R --help are also very important help sources! If I had remembered it A good suggestion. -- Patrick Connolly HortResearch Mt Albert Auckland New Zealand Ph: +64-9 815 4200 x 7188 ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ I have the world`s largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world ... Perhaps you`ve seen it. ---Steven Wright ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help