>>>>> "MHHS" == Martin Henry H Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:23:46 -0400 writes:
MHHS> Hi Folks, I was wondering what everyone thought about MHHS> adding a sentence to each package update announcement MHHS> that described what the package did. R extensions are MHHS> so numerous that it is difficult to keep up with them. MHHS> Would it be appropriate to ask package developers to MHHS> add a brief sentence about what the package does, when MHHS> they announce updates? Thanks a lot, Hank! I've been supporting your suggestion ever since I had created 'R-packages' ( = "R package announcements mailing list"). As moderator, I even occasionally rejected postings to R-packages exactly by requiring such short information preceding any notice of changes. I think that >99% of the package authors would also agree, but then we are all humans and hence sometimes get into peculiar world views such as "there's my package, and there's R and then rest of the universe" ;-) Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich MHHS> I would benefit from such descriptions. MHHS> Cheers, Hank MHHS> Dr. Hank Stevens, Assistant Professor 338 Pearson Hall MHHS> Botany Department Miami University Oxford, OH 45056 MHHS> Office: (513) 529-4206 Lab: (513) 529-4262 FAX: (513) MHHS> 529-4243 http://www.cas.muohio.edu/~stevenmh/ MHHS> http://www.muohio.edu/ecology/ MHHS> http://www.muohio.edu/botany/ MHHS> "E Pluribus Unum" MHHS> ______________________________________________ MHHS> R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list MHHS> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do MHHS> read the posting guide MHHS> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and MHHS> provide commented, minimal, self-contained, MHHS> reproducible code. ______________________________________________ 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.