On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 11:55 AM, 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 think there's a broader issue here, that many people (Hadley included, but many many others) who do open source work go seriously underappreciated and underrespected. This is not just in academia. You do not have to read too many emails on R-help or R-devel to see someone complaining about something that is not working or is not working the way it "should". Suggestions for improvement are always great, but it seems to me the tone is often very negative considering the amount of time and effort very gifted people put into it and have gotten A) little or no payment B) little recognition from their respective institutions. Makes me wish I was more than a graduate student and had more to give. Josh -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology Programmer Analyst II, ATS Statistical Consulting Group University of California, Los Angeles https://joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ 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.
