> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Lumley > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 11:24 AM > To: François Pinard > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Rd] Possible bug in R 2.6.1 (PR#10565) > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, [iso-8859-1] François Pinard wrote: > > > [Brian Ripley] > > > >> I do often wonder why people are 'sure you know for certain' (to > >> quote the > >> FAQ) that something as elementary as this would be a bug > for so many > >> years. It indicates a lack of respect for the R developers. > > > > Not at all. A bug report may be naive, or even wrong, and still be > > driven by good will, and be rightly interpreted as an attempt at a > > contribution to both the R community and R developers. > > > > Brian's point is
... and François Pinard's is that you should (sic) be more tolerant and forgiving to _your_ users. BTW, my standing ovations to François Pinard excellent language and wordings. I wish I could do it as well :-( Thanks for understanding, Latchezar Dimitrov > that there is an *explicit* request (in both > the posting guide and the FAQ) not to send things to R-bugs > unless you are *sure* they are bugs. Queries about > *possible* bugs are welcome on r-devel or r-help as appropriate. > > Someone who sends a query about a possible bug to r-bugs has > either not read the posting guide or has chosen to ignore the > request. It is possible that the request in the posting guide > is not sufficiently clear and they just misunderstand it, but > I haven't seen anyone claim this. If that's what you mean, > then suggestions for making it clearer would be considered. > > If someone presents code on r-help or r-devel that produces > behaviour they don't understand and asks if it is bug (rather > than asserting that it must be a bug) they have a much higher > chance of receiving a friendly reply [and an even higher > chance of receiving a helpful reply] > > > -thomas > > Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics > [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Washington, Seattle > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
