Re: [R] draft of posting guide. Sorry.

2003-12-22 Thread Eryk Wolski
Hi! Sorry. Please take my last mail to the account that it was monday and I had two "hard" birthday party's during the weekend. Probably all this caused the problem to express that the style of the "mailing list guide" shocked me. I asked this morning such a "stupid"(if you know the answer) questi

Re: [R] draft of posting guide. Sorry.

2003-12-22 Thread A.J. Rossini
A few comments... Eryk Wolski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As I said, the guide had given me the feeling that someone wants to censor > me. Especially the first section of the Posting Guide: "How to ask good > questions that prompt useful answers" does this. The guide starts with > talking main

Re: [R] draft of posting guide. Sorry.

2003-12-23 Thread Patrick Connolly
On Tue, 23-Dec-2003 at 05:31AM +0100, Eryk Wolski wrote: [] |> I cooled down now and therefore give me a chance to explain why |> that user guide scares me. A few comments: |> As I said, the guide had given me the feeling that someone wants to |> censor me. You mean you reacted in a way

Re: Re: [R] draft of posting guide. Sorry.

2003-12-22 Thread Tim Churches
A.J. Rossini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, the amount (and quality) of > (freely-available, at least for the cost of download, which might not > be free) documentation for R is simply incredible. The closest that > I've seen, for freely available languages, is Python, for actual > quality