Hmm... you know I'd love to run a study on how software and other information displays affect the speed, accuracy and reliability with which people make insights about data.
Tom On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Stavros Macrakis <macra...@alum.mit.edu>wrote: > > 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.) > > That seems wrong. My impression is that "method" papers were frequent > "citation > classics <http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/classics.html>". Why should a > software method paper be treated worse than a (e.g.) chemical method paper? > > -s > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 15:58, Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > 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. > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
