Ha! Point publicly acknowledged. Best, A.
On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:41:36 -0600 Hadley Wickham <had...@rice.edu> wrote: > > No seriously, as much as I'm for free enterprise, it feels awkward to > > see you promote an (expensive!) course in a list where people offer not > > only their knowledge, but also the tools you use, for free. > > You might have a point if I taught this course instead of offering > knowledge and code for free, but I do it as well. Over the years I > have contributed thousands of answers on R-help and hundreds on > stackoverflow. I've written dozens of open-source packages and look > after several R related mailing lists. I make pre-prints of all my > papers available for free, I release all my lecture notes under > creative commons licenses and I'm a supporting benefactor of the R > foundation (or at least I've submitted the paperwork, I'm not yet > listed on the site). What more do you want?! > > Some of the money I earn from these courses goes to pay for my summer > salary and supports student research. It also gives me confidence that > if I don't get tenure because I've been writing R packages instead of > papers, I can keep doing the work I love. > > Hadley > > > -- > Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair > Department of Statistics / Rice University > http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ 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.
