Yes I am an active spatstat use On Wednesday, 28 March 2012, Rolf Turner wrote:
> > This is a cry for help. My apologies for taking up bandwidth > with an issue that is not really on topic. But I really do want > to acquire the requested information. > > In the course of preparing my PBRF (performance based research > funds) portfolio for the upcoming PBRF exercise here in New Zealand, > I have been advised that I should provide some estimate of the number > of "active users" of the spatstat package (of which I am a co-developer > with > Adrian Baddeley) and which I am touting as one of my contributions to the > well-being of the universe. > > So how do I estimate the number of "active users"? Bozhemoi! > > I decided I'd do a survey of the r-help list. > > So *please* respond (VERY briefly) to this email, saying just > > "Yes I am an active spatstat user", or > > "No I am not an active spatstat user". > > Please don't alter the subject line. > > Please respond immediately if you're going to respond at all; > I need to have this stuff done by the afternoon of Fri. 30 March > 2012, New Zealand time. > > I leave it to you to decide what "*active* user" means. I guess > if you've done more than just had a brief vague look at the package ..... > > I hope to be able to tally the Yes's and No's, take the ratio of > the Yes count to the total count, multiply by the total number > of subscribers to r-help (which I *hope* to be able to find out > from the list maintainer). And there's my estimate. > > Please don't waste your time telling me this is a load of > dingos' kidneys. I know that. The pitfalls and unsatisfied assumptions > outnumber the stars in the sky. But what else can I do, eh? > > Thank you for your time and forbearance. > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > ______________________________**________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-help<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/** > posting-guide.html <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.
