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2019-06-11 Thread Marc Schwartz via R-help
> On Jun 11, 2019, at 4:03 AM, Martin Maechler > wrote: > >> Brent via R-help >>on Sun, 9 Jun 2019 03:07:38 + writes: > > [..] > [..] > [..] > >> This email list's archives: > >> Apologies in advance if this question has been

[R] R-help mailing list archives

2019-06-11 Thread Martin Maechler
> Brent via R-help > on Sun, 9 Jun 2019 03:07:38 + writes: [..] [..] [..] > This email list's archives: > Apologies in advance if this question has been asked and > answered many times already. > But know that b

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 26/01/2016 6:30 AM, S Ellison wrote: Yet, the trend I've seen is one of increasing **R-not-help**, in that there are many posts, often by new R users who get replies that not infrequently range from just mildly off-putting to actively hostile: Slightly surprised that in a debate postulated o

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-26 Thread S Ellison
> Yet, the trend I've seen is one of increasing **R-not-help**, in that there > are > many posts, often by new R users who get replies that not infrequently range > from just mildly off-putting to actively hostile: Slightly surprised that in a debate postulated on increasing 'meanness', no-one h

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-25 Thread Kevin E. Thorpe
Message- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Michael Friendly Sent: January 24, 2016 5:43 PM To: Jean-Luc Dupouey; r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help? On 1/23/2016 7:28 AM, Jean-Luc Dupouey wrote: Dear members, Not a

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-25 Thread John Sorkin
iate that. Peter Alspach (one of the 'moderators') -Original Message- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Oliver Keyes Sent: Tuesday, 26 January 2016 10:23 a.m. To: Duncan Murdoch Cc: r-help Subject: Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-hel

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-25 Thread Peter Alspach
ach (one of the 'moderators') -Original Message- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Oliver Keyes Sent: Tuesday, 26 January 2016 10:23 a.m. To: Duncan Murdoch Cc: r-help Subject: Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help? Sorry, poor phrasing on

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-25 Thread jwd
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:06:35 -0500 Oliver Keyes wrote: > +1. And frankly I would like to suggest that there is another obvious > solution here; pairing a set of guidelines around expected user > behaviour with removing people from the mailing list, or moderating > them, if they do not think that

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-25 Thread jwd
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:33:12 -0800 Hasan Diwan wrote: > There exists a fine line between being unintentionally rude, but > helpful and purposely putting someone down. -- H The line is really not "fine" at all since it lies in that word "purposely." Also, you've associated "helpful" with uninten

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-25 Thread Oliver Keyes
Sorry, poor phrasing on my part; on the occasions where someone is rude, all I see is... I agree the public cautioning should be done by moderators, yes. On 25 January 2016 at 16:13, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 25/01/2016 3:33 PM, Hasan Diwan wrote: >> >> There exists a fine line between being un

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-25 Thread Hasan Diwan
On 25 January 2016 at 13:13, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 25/01/2016 3:33 PM, Hasan Diwan wrote: > >> There exists a fine line between being unintentionally rude, but helpful >> and purposely putting someone down. -- H >> > > I'm afraid I don't think your point is relevant. I didn't claim all the

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 25/01/2016 3:33 PM, Hasan Diwan wrote: There exists a fine line between being unintentionally rude, but helpful and purposely putting someone down. -- H I'm afraid I don't think your point is relevant. I didn't claim all the people who were rude did it unintentionally. However, I don't k

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-25 Thread Hasan Diwan
There exists a fine line between being unintentionally rude, but helpful and purposely putting someone down. -- H On 25 January 2016 at 12:07, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 25/01/2016 2:45 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote: > >> I disagree, and would argue that fails to take a systemic view of this >> kind of

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 25/01/2016 2:45 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote: I disagree, and would argue that fails to take a systemic view of this kind of behaviour. If individual commentators are acerbic and are only privately reprimanded, from the perspective of everyone else it looks like the acerbic reply was A-OK. Someone

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-25 Thread Oliver Keyes
a posting one >> >> does >> >> not like for some reason. It might also be worthwhile to actively >> >> counter >> >> negative feedback when we experience that 'cringing' moment. I'm not >> >> thinking >> >> to foster

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-25 Thread Fowler, Mark
ler, Mark; dupo...@nancy.inra.fr; r-help@r-project.org; frien...@yorku.ca Subject: Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help? When we read acerbic replies we should remind the poster to reply in a more moderate tone. On the other hand noting that the list is not intended to be a source of answe

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
ome tangible reassurance to new >> users, and not just the ones invoking the negative feedback, that a >> particular respondent may not represent the perspective of the list. >> >> -Original Message- >> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf O

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-25 Thread John Sorkin
t may not represent the perspective of the list. >> >> -Original Message- >> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Michael >> Friendly >> Sent: January 24, 2016 5:43 PM >> To: Jean-Luc Dupouey; r-help@r-project.org >> Subj

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-25 Thread Ted Harding
represent the perspective of the list. > > -Original Message- > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Michael > Friendly > Sent: January 24, 2016 5:43 PM > To: Jean-Luc Dupouey; r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] R-help mailing list activi

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-25 Thread Oliver Keyes
- > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Michael > Friendly > Sent: January 24, 2016 5:43 PM > To: Jean-Luc Dupouey; r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help? > > > On 1/23/2016 7:28 AM, Jean-Luc Dupou

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-25 Thread Fowler, Mark
y Sent: January 24, 2016 5:43 PM To: Jean-Luc Dupouey; r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help? On 1/23/2016 7:28 AM, Jean-Luc Dupouey wrote: > Dear members, > > Not a technical question: But one worth raising... > > The number of thread

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-24 Thread Robert Sherry
I think this mailing list is wonderful and it has helped me a lot. In fact, I am not sure I would be using R today if it was not for this list. Bob On 1/24/2016 4:42 PM, Michael Friendly wrote: On 1/23/2016 7:28 AM, Jean-Luc Dupouey wrote: Dear members, Not a technical question: But one wo

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity / R-not-help?

2016-01-24 Thread Michael Friendly
On 1/23/2016 7:28 AM, Jean-Luc Dupouey wrote: Dear members, Not a technical question: But one worth raising... The number of threads in this mailing list, following a long period of increase, has been regularly and strongly decreasing since 2010, passing from more than 40K threads to less th

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity

2016-01-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
One additional point: On 23/01/2016 8:33 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: distinction between answers and comments, it's gamification (badges, One advantage of Stackoverflow is that you can go back and correct silly errors (like misspelling "its"). Duncan Murdoch

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity

2016-01-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 23 Jan 2016, Duncan Murdoch wrote: I don't see duplication as counterproductive -- some people like one style, some like the other, both will find answers. Duncan, There's another factor to add to your list. Mail lists, such as r-help and the various SIGs _push_ messages to subscrib

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity

2016-01-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 23/01/2016 7:28 AM, Jean-Luc Dupouey wrote: Dear members, Not a technical question: The number of threads in this mailing list, following a long period of increase, has been regularly and strongly decreasing since 2010, passing from more than 40K threads to less than 11K threads last year. T

Re: [R] R-help mailing list activity

2016-01-23 Thread Thomas Petzoldt
Hi, from my perspective as R user and package maintainer I would consider the normalization of the r-help mailing list a good sign. r-help is still a good place for general questions, while more specific discussions moved to the r-sig-... mailing lists. Maybe a slight reduction can also be a

[R] R-help mailing list activity

2016-01-23 Thread Jean-Luc Dupouey
Dear members, Not a technical question: The number of threads in this mailing list, following a long period of increase, has been regularly and strongly decreasing since 2010, passing from more than 40K threads to less than 11K threads last year. The trend is similar for most of the "ancient"

Re: [R] R-help mailing list

2015-12-03 Thread Sarah Goslee
You need to start with a basic understanding of how R works. Here are a couple of sources that might help you get started: http://www.burns-stat.com/documents/tutorials/impatient-r/ http://cyclismo.org/tutorial/R/ Sarah On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Saba Sehrish via R-help wrote: > Hi > > > >

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2015-12-03 Thread Saba Sehrish via R-help
Hi   I am a PhD student and I want to learn how to run Linear regression with Lag-5 on R through "For Loop". Please find the details below:   1-            I need guidance about Coding/ Programming for Simple Linear Regression with Lag-5 on R. 2-   I have time series data of “Daily R

[R] R-help mailing list submissions

2012-01-27 Thread Christopher Kelvin
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