-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/11 18:47, Greg Snow wrote: > Some of the functions that were the first in the TeachingDemos > package were originally written to help me visualize something, so it > is not just teachers demoing, but people demoing to themselves. It > has become a bit of a misc package with several utilities that are > useful in themselves, but while I have considered splitting the > package, I don't see an obvious splitting (and what would I call the > new part?, naming things is not my strongest talent, just look at > some of the functions in TeachingDemos, luckily for my kids my wife > invoked veto power there). > > If someone wanted to include the function in one of the core packages > then I would be happy to donate it, though generally that means one > of the core members taking over maintenance and they may not want to > do that (and I am happy to keep doing so). One of my small claims to > fame is that there have been 3 instances of code in the TeachingDemos > package that apparently had the right combination of potential > usefulness and ugly code or implementation that inspired Brian Ripley > to write new functions in the core packages to do the same thing > (only better). The subplot function has not been one of those, so I > am guessing that Prof. Ripley (or other core members) either has not > become aware of it, does not think it useful enough, or does not > consider it ugly enough to ne rewriting (I am hoping it's the last). > > Personally I think the TeachingDemos package is useful and everyone > should use it (but I may be a bit biased). I sometimes fantasize > about it becoming one of the official recommended packages (but the > realistic part of me admits that this is only slightly more likely to > happen than the fantasy about developing super powers or having the > entire house stay clean for a whole day with 4 kids at home). > > Luckily Jim (and others) is good at pointing people to TeachingDemos > when it is appropriate. I try to point people to Jim's package as > well, but he is usually a bit faster about it. > >
Hi Greg, I must say I thoroughly enjoyed reading your response and reasoning and I will definitely take a closer look into the TeahingDemos package. Cheers, Rainer - -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2iw9sACgkQoYgNqgF2egqDYwCeP6j7rReGPlkgwYx4lcNyC4j5 qc0AoIle1bkl8Zwf0TIn83WLfB1aikTd =TlQ/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
