On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:50 AM, David L Carlson <dcarl...@tamu.edu> wrote: > We often refer requesters to the Posting Guide and chide them for not > reading it. Recently I had occasion to re-read the Posting Guide which is > for all R lists not just R-help. The word "reproducible" does not appear > anywhere in the guide. The closest it comes is the following suggestion: > > "Sometimes it helps to provide a small example that someone can actually > run." > > Recommendations to use the function dput() to provide sample data do not > appear in the guide. > > The bottom of messages to R-help does contain the statement you've all seen, > but I had assumed it summarized advice found elsewhere since first time > posters may not see the message until after they have posted. > > "PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, > self-contained, reproducible code." > > The Mailing Lists page describes R-help but refers only to the posting guide > http://www.r-project.org/mail.html and does not include this advisory > statement. > > The R-help Info Page also refers only to the posting guide > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help and does not include this > advisory statement. > > I hesitate to sound too optimistic, but there might be some advantage in > making the statement more prominent and adding a reproducible example using > dput(). > > ---------------------------------------------- > David L Carlson > Associate Professor of Anthropology > Texas A&M University > College Station, TX 77843-4352 > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
I agree that the posting guide is not ideal. On the other hand, the last line of every message to r-help does concisely list what is required. -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.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.
