You wrote: "It may be best to either write to the package maintainer (me, as you did) or post to the group but not both."
This is just a note that I disagree wrt my own packages: I go on vacation or trips, or have other projects so won't always answer Other folks on the list often have good ideas that I'd miss My preferred standard is "ask the list, with a copy to Therneau as an additional courtesy". Of course if it's an out and out bug you've found, that no one else but me can deal with, then one can skip the list. Terry T. ______________________________________________ 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.