Peter Dalgaard: > Ben Bolker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 1. compose your response > I've always wondered why step 1. - often the time-consuming bit - is not > listed last.
The advice applies to the situation when answering immediately would be your knee-jerk reaction. It is assumed that actually composing and sending the mail would take very little time and thought, whereas coming around to answering it after runif(1)*4 hours would take considerably more time, even when mulitiplied with the probability that you are still the first one. Looking at the submission times of questions and answers in this particular case, though, I would be upset if the helpful guys actually used this algorithm. Most of the answers were submitted after 3.5 to 4 h time, thus revealing a possible flaw of the random number generator underlying runif(). ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
