Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list
Hi,
I'm the site maintainer of the r-sig-...@r-project.org mailing
lists (and back from vacations).
Sarah Goslee sarah.gos...@gmail.com
on Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:16:01 -0500 writes:
Hi all,
It would be great if Sara of someone of the maintainers
of the r-sig-ecology list could add that info to the info page.
I'm talking with the other maintainer about revising both
the short and the long descriptions.
I think that r-sig-env would be much more intuitive for
environmental scientists coming from fields different
from ecology, but I don't think it is possible to change
the name of an existing mailing list.
yes, that would be only doable with much effort,
and (unless even more effort is put in) it would invalidate all
current links to the current archives etc.
However, I'm wondering if it would be possible to create
an alias termed 'r-sig-env' to 'r-sig-ecology' ?, in
order to make the name of the list more intuitive for
environmental scientists but without disturbing the
current users.
I don't know that there is any mechanism for doing either
of those things. Changing the name would be disruptive,
and I don't know of an alias option.
there is none, on the mailing list level.
On the mail server side, I could create such aliases,
but then these would only apply to e-mail addresses and the ML
software would still speak of the official ML name...
Given all the issues and opinions heard so far, I'd also
propose trying to have hydrologists and other env.scientists
join the r-sig-ecology for the time being.
Brian Ripley has already mentioned the very important point,
that there's some often non-negligible admin overhead for each
list, and I can add that indeed, we have had several lists that
always remained too small and so never started flying.
I think ecology is a more inclusive term than
environmental anyway, but then I'm an ecologist.
Sarah
ah, that's an interesting side issue, and at first somewhat
counter intuitive to a layman like me,... but after thinking a bit
about the meaning of the words, most will have to agree with you.
{but please let's not start a thread on that now..}
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
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Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list
Dear Martin, Thank you for confirming what I'd already suspected about the mailing list software. I've added hydrology explicitly to the list description, and hope that the hydrologists find it a welcoming home. We've got a solid core of participants, so R users should find it a useful resource. Sarah On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Martin Maechler maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch wrote: Hi, I'm the site maintainer of the r-sig-...@r-project.org mailing lists (and back from vacations). Sarah Goslee sarah.gos...@gmail.com on Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:16:01 -0500 writes: Hi all, It would be great if Sara of someone of the maintainers of the r-sig-ecology list could add that info to the info page. I'm talking with the other maintainer about revising both the short and the long descriptions. I think that r-sig-env would be much more intuitive for environmental scientists coming from fields different from ecology, but I don't think it is possible to change the name of an existing mailing list. yes, that would be only doable with much effort, and (unless even more effort is put in) it would invalidate all current links to the current archives etc. However, I'm wondering if it would be possible to create an alias termed 'r-sig-env' to 'r-sig-ecology' ?, in order to make the name of the list more intuitive for environmental scientists but without disturbing the current users. I don't know that there is any mechanism for doing either of those things. Changing the name would be disruptive, and I don't know of an alias option. there is none, on the mailing list level. On the mail server side, I could create such aliases, but then these would only apply to e-mail addresses and the ML software would still speak of the official ML name... Given all the issues and opinions heard so far, I'd also propose trying to have hydrologists and other env.scientists join the r-sig-ecology for the time being. Brian Ripley has already mentioned the very important point, that there's some often non-negligible admin overhead for each list, and I can add that indeed, we have had several lists that always remained too small and so never started flying. -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list
On 16/02/12 12:51, Sarah Goslee wrote: Dear Martin, Thank you for confirming what I'd already suspected about the mailing list software. What a pity that is not possible, but thank you very much Martin for confirming and explaining why is not possible. I've added hydrology explicitly to the list description, and hope that the hydrologists find it a welcoming home. We've got a solid core of participants, so R users should find it a useful resource. It is decided then. Thank you very much Sarah for adding hydrology to the description of the R-sig-ecology mailing list: The purpose of R-sig-ecology is two-fold. First, we want to provide a discussion forum for those analyzing ecological and environmental data with R, including but not limited to vegetation, soils and hydrology. Second, we want to encourage R users of all ability and experience to participate so that we may grow the community of ecologists and environmental scientists that use R. Thank you all for taking part in this discussion. I'll start spreading the voice among colleagues. I hope Dominik may mention this mailing list in the EGU 2012 short course Hydrological Analysis in R: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2012/session/10635 All the best for the enhanced R-sig-ecology mailing list. Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini -- === FLOODS Action Water Resources Unit (H01) Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) webinfo: http://floods.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ === DISCLAIMER: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission. === Linux user #454569 -- Ubuntu user #17469 === The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation. (Comer Cotrell) Sarah On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Martin Maechler maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch wrote: Hi, I'm the site maintainer of the r-sig-...@r-project.org mailing lists (and back from vacations). Sarah Gosleesarah.gos...@gmail.com on Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:16:01 -0500 writes: Hi all, It would be great if Sara of someone of the maintainers of the r-sig-ecology list could add that info to the info page. I'm talking with the other maintainer about revising both the short and the long descriptions. I think that r-sig-env would be much more intuitive for environmental scientists coming from fields different from ecology, but I don't think it is possible to change the name of an existing mailing list. yes, that would be only doable with much effort, and (unless even more effort is put in) it would invalidate all current links to the current archives etc. However, I'm wondering if it would be possible to create an alias termed 'r-sig-env' to 'r-sig-ecology' ?, in order to make the name of the list more intuitive for environmental scientists but without disturbing the current users. I don't know that there is any mechanism for doing either of those things. Changing the name would be disruptive, and I don't know of an alias option. there is none, on the mailing list level. On the mail server side, I could create such aliases, but then these would only apply to e-mail addresses and the ML software would still speak of the official ML name... Given all the issues and opinions heard so far, I'd also propose trying to have hydrologists and other env.scientists join the r-sig-ecology for the time being. Brian Ripley has already mentioned the very important point, that there's some often non-negligible admin overhead for each list, and I can add that indeed, we have had several lists that always remained too small and so never started flying. __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list
On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 12:21 -0500, Sarah Goslee wrote: Hello, I'm one of the maintainers of the r-sig-ecology list, and I think it would be entirely appropriate to include hydrology within the scope of the list. I also agree. It was always the intention AFAICR for the R-SIG-Ecology list to cover environmetrics in its fullest sense. With hindsight R-SIG-Environ or something along those lines would have given the impression of a wider focus for the list, but only in some quarters. I do hope that the hydrologists do join us in asking and answering questions on the R-SIG-Ecology list as both are needed for the list to flourish. G There hasn't been much hydrologic discussion, as you noted, but not because we wish to exclude it. Sarah On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini mauricio.zambr...@jrc.ec.europa.eu wrote: Another possibility could be to use the R-sig-ecology, which seems to be more related to hydrology: analytical techniques and topics that are appropriate for discussion on R-sig-ecology are quite broad. For examples of what might be appropriate for discussion on this list, please see the Environmentrics Task View (http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Environmetrics.html) (taken from: https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-ecology) However, I did a quick search on the archives of 'R-sig-ecology' for the year 2011, and I could only found one single mail related to hydrology: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-ecology/2011-July/002274.html (in the same search I couldn't find any single reference to hydrology in the R-sig-geo during the year 2011) -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
[Rd] Parallel R CMD check?
Running R CMD check on a package can take quite a lot of time. Checks seem like they could be run in parallel (separate processes for, e.g., codoc, examples, tests, ...). Is there a way to do this? My current usage is typically R CMD build pkg R CMD check pkg_x.y.z.tar.gz Thanks for any hints, Martin -- Computational Biology Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N. PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109 Location: M1-B861 Telephone: 206 667-2793 __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
