On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Steve Lianoglou <mailinglist.honey...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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. > > If that actually happens, that would be an amazing/colossal (not in a > good way) testament to how well the "rating system" works in academia. I'm not in academia, but government research. I do go through a review very similar to the tenure process. Last time, I was told that I couldn't list my R package and associated papers as a research activity with substantial impact because it was outside my official scope of work. (Even though I wrote it so I could *do* my work.) I have no trouble seeing academic administrators do the same thing. Sarah -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ 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.
