Re: [R] Supporting R/Membership

[jaropis]

If there is an ONLINE mechanism, I will donate.

j

Joshua Wiley wrote:

 Dear R Users,
 
 I know issues like this have come up in the past.  I am wondering how
 many people would be interested in an online mechanism for donating to
 the R Foundation or for becoming supporting members.  Right now, the
 link for it is somewhat buried on the R home page, and once you get
 there, the options are to mail or fax a form.  IIRC, Paypal was not a
 good option due to some fees, but just making the form submittable
 online would make things a lot easier.  Also credit cards expire and
 then new numbers need to be sent.
 
 I printed the form to mail off, but anecdotally I had planned on this
 for well over a year and kept putting it off.  If this is something
 that useRs and the R Foundation would be interested in, I would be
 happy to help work on setting something up and maintaining it.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Josh
 


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[R] R Founding

[jaropis]

A few days ago Tal Galili posted a message about some controversies 
concerning the future of R. Having read the discussions, especially those 
following Ross Ihaka's post, I have come to the conclusion, that, as usual, 
the problem is money. I doubt there would be discussions about dropping R in 
its present form if the R-Foundation were properly funded and could hire 
computer scientists, programmers and statisticians. If a commercial company 
is able to provide big-database and multicore solutions, then so would a 
properly founded R-Foundation. 

In my opinion the main reason for the lack of funding is that the Foundation 
does not want to accept it from users and waits for the likes of Google to 
bring them a sack of money. I have already posted about this, but this seems 
to be the time and place to repeat it: it is very difficult to donate 
anything to the R-Foundation. First you have to find the appropriate link at 
the r-project page, then you have to fill out a form and send or fax it to 
the Foundation. I am not comfortable sending my details over snail-mail or 
fax. 

I would GLADLY donate 30-50$ each year just to see R develop, but there 
needs to be a way for me to do it in a civilized manner. If the userbase of 
R is over 2 million there will surely be 100,000 users who, like myself, 
will happily fork out 40$ a year - would that help? you can do the 
calculation yourselves. Set up a donation page in which I will be able to 
pay by credit card or PayPal and you will start getting donations from 
individual users. Advertise this at the startup message of the program: say 
something like support us at www.suppoRtR.com and the money will start 
coming. I am sure there would be enough to employ some foundation members 
full-time, pay external CSs and even protect the system in court from those 
who make money off of somebody else's work and do not give back to the 
community (you know who I am talking about). 

R and the Foundation have helped a lot of us to do our research and make 
real money. Now give us a chance to help you!


Regards
Jaroslaw Piskorski

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Re: [R] Emacs and ESS help

[jaropis]

 Any and all help is deeply appreciated.

If you do not want to learn all the inns and outs of Emacs, just download 
the Emacs distribution provided by Vincent Goulet - it has ESS. Uninstall 
your present Emacs, go to http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/
download Vincent's distribution, install it, and your are set!

Jarek

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Re: [R] Best R text editors?

[jaropis]

Uli Kleinwechter wrote:

 Hi Jonathan,
 
 contributing to your poll: Also Emacs+ESS on Linux.
same here

J

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