On 6/6/2005 6:46 AM, Chris Evans wrote:
On 5 Jun 2005 at 18:44, Jari Oksanen wrote:
There are diverse opinions about netiquette. One of the most basic, in
my opinion, is this: if someone posts starts a discussion in a certain
forum, you shall not divert it to another forum where it may be hidden
by most readers, perhaps even by the originator of the thread.
With the greatest of respect for Duncan and the R-devel list, I think
Jari has a point here. This is one of the most important issues I've
seen raised on this list (R-help) in recent months and I think it may
be a structural problem for the development of R, in common with that
of much FLOSS s'ware, that there's a separation of users and authors
that needs thought.
I don't think the existence of two lists implies separate populations of
users versus authors. In fact, I suspect most R users are authors and
vice versa (though some authors publish more than others). The point is
that when discussing something about the development of R, it makes more
sense to do it in the R development list. When asking for help on how
to use R, it makes more sense to do it here.
If in a few month's time, I want to look up a vaguely remembered
discussion about improvements to the package help system, I'll look for
it in the R-devel archives. If it took place here, I'd miss it.
It may already exist, but a web interface that did a help.search over
all the packages in the current release version would be great. (If
it does exist, sorry, but I'm no dunce and use R nearly every day and
try to read much of r-help every day and don't know it, which may say
something!)
I don't think a search that is restricted in exactly that way currently
exists, but a Google search like
kappa site:http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions
might be useful (if you're searching for kappa!).
Duncan Murdoch
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