On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 4:41 AM, Patrick Connolly
wrote:
> |> Dear Don and Bert,
> |> Allow me to address some of your concerns below.
>
> Which you do very clearly by positioning your responses underneath
> what you're commenting on. That doesn't seem to be possible on SE.
>
In addition to Yihui'
For those defending mailing lists over StackOverflow, can you merge
these threads so later readers do not have to move between multiple
conversations?
1. Re: Should there be an R-beginners list?
2. Re: [R] creating an equivalent of r-help on r.stackexchange.com ?
(was: Re: Should there be an
On Tue, 04-Feb-2014 at 01:11AM +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote:
|> Dear Don and Bert,
|> Allow me to address some of your concerns below.
|>
Which you do very clearly by positioning your responses underneath
what you're commenting on. That doesn't seem to be possible on SE.
[...]
|> > On Mon, Fe
On 05/02/2014 1:32 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
Dear all,
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> It seems that StackOverflow is officially proposing user-generated
> content for download/mirroring:
>
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/01/stack-exchange-cc-data-now-hosted-by-the
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> So in the end my proposal is not necessarily for r-help to go to SE,
> but more for R to have its own Q&A forum/wiki for helping R users.
> This could perfectly take the form of setting up its own open-source
> https://github.com/ialbert/bio
Dear all,
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> It seems that StackOverflow is officially proposing user-generated
> content for download/mirroring:
> http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/01/stack-exchange-cc-data-now-hosted-by-the-internet-archive/?cb=1
>
> "All community-contr
es mean another application.
Regards,
Jason
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Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 11:24 PM
To: Clint Bowman
Cc: r-help@r-project.org; Bert Gunter
Subject: Re: [R] creating an equivale
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Subject: Re: [R] creating an equivalent of r-help on r.stackexchange.com ?
(was: Re: Should there be an R-beginners list?)
Dear Clint,
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Clint Bowman wrote:
> Liviu,
>
> Thanks for the excellent description of the advantages of SE.
> However, there
My sentiments exactly!
Thanks to all for taking the time to flesh out the potential flaws of the
stackexchange "solution".
KW
> Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 10:36:21 +1300
> From: Rolf Turner
> To: Bert Gunter
> Cc: "r-help@r-project.org"
> Subject: Re: [R]
On Feb 3, 2014, at 8:54 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> As I have noted in a prior reply in this thread, which began last November,
>> I don't post in SO, but I do keep track of the traffic there via RSS feeds.
>> Howe
Dear Clint,
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Clint Bowman wrote:
> Liviu,
>
> Thanks for the excellent description of the advantages of SE. However,
> there is a significant fraction of the population that prefers that
> information be pushed out to them rather than having to pull it to them. Th
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> As I have noted in a prior reply in this thread, which began last November, I
> don't post in SO, but I do keep track of the traffic there via RSS feeds.
> However, the RSS feeds are primarily for new posts and do not seem to u
Hi All,
As I have noted in a prior reply in this thread, which began last November, I
don't post in SO, but I do keep track of the traffic there via RSS feeds.
However, the RSS feeds are primarily for new posts and do not seem to update
with follow ups to the initial post.
I do wish that they
As one of the original ranters of "hey lets move to StackOverflow" a
few years back (see my UseR! lightning talk from Warwick) I should
probably stick my oar in.
I don't think the SO model is a good model for all the discussions
that go on on R-help.
I think SO is a good model for questions that
Liviu,
Thanks for the excellent description of the advantages of SE. However,
there is a significant fraction of the population that prefers that
information be pushed out to them rather than having to pull it to them.
The best system is one that accommodates both equally well.
Clint
Clint
Dear Don and Bert,
Allow me to address some of your concerns below.
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 9:56 PM, Bert Gunter wrote:
> I find SO's voting for posting business especially irritating. I wish
> merely to post or to read the posts of others without being subjected
> to some kind of online pseudo g
Ditto. And ditto. And (by the way -- no-one seems to have mentioned it)
what are the possibilities, for mail appearing on something like Stack
Exchange, of having the mail sent to oneself so that it can be stored
locally, on one's own machine? That is the only way I would want to
work -- anything i
For what it's worth, I would like to say that I concur completely with
Don and Bert. (Also I would like second Bert's vote of thanks to Don
for expressing the position so clearly.)
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On 04/02/14 09:56, Bert Gunter wrote:
Don:
First, I apologize if this is off topic, but
Don,
Thanks for the brilliant summary of my thoughts.
Clint
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Don:
First, I apologize if this is off topic, but I thought I should reply publicly.
I would only like to say thank you for so eloquently and elegantly
summarizing my views, also. Maybe that makes me a dinosaur. If so, I
happily accept the label.
I find SO's voting for posting business especiall
Every browser-based interface I've ever seen has a number of features that
I find to be huge deterrents. To mention just two:
- They waste copious amounts of screen space on irrelevant things such as
"votes", the number of views, the elapsed time since something or other
happened, fancy web-page h
Dear Duncan,
I discovered something interesting wrt to the licensing and mirroring
of user-contributed material on StackExchange. Please read below.
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Duncan Murdoch
wrote:
>> I'm not aware of a discussion on this, but I would say no.
>> Fragmentation is bad. Furt
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