>>>>> Spencer Graves <spencer.gra...@prodsyse.com>
>>>>> on Sat, 14 Mar 2015 10:02:46 -0700 writes:
> While answering a question, I believe it's
> acceptable (even encouraged) to cite a relevant book, even
> if it's yours ;-)
> Spencer
Definitely, Spencer.
I was talking about explicit announcements.
Martin
> On 3/14/2015 9:53 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>>> John Kane <jrkrid...@inbox.com> on Fri, 13 Mar 2015
>>>>>>> 06:16:19 -0800 writes:
>> > I have the feeling that this was discussed 3-4 years
>> ago > and the overall opinion seems to be that if the
>> course or > book was relevant then it was acceptable on
>> an occasional > basis. No spamming-type or mass selling
>> posts were. > John Kane Kingston ON Canada
>>
>> Your feeling is pretty good. At the time -- and still
>> today -- we did not want to impose rigid rules about
>> this. As host and principal maintainer of the
>> R-*@r-project.org mailing list, my current view is as
>> follows:
>>
>> * Books:
>>
>> Should typically *not* be announced on R-help for the
>> following reasons.
>>
>> a) The R web page lists books which deal with R as a
>> major theme. (http://www.r-project.org/ sidebar
>> 'Documentation' -> 'Books' ==>
>> http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R-books.html). All R
>> Core and some other R Foundation members can edit the
>> underlying *.bib source file in R-docs; historically 95%
>> of that work has been done by Kurt Hornik and Fritz
>> Leisch. b) Books just using R to solve a certain problem
>> abound nowadays and should defintely *not* be announced
>> as globally as by using R-help.
>>
>> * Course announcements:
>>
>> You may announce a course "series" once if it's new *and*
>> globally accessible online. All other courses should be
>> announced in local R user groups, or similar forums.
>>
>> -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>>
>> And because it's the weekend:
>>
>> Motto:
>>
>> We humans live much better with guidelines by responsibly
>> applying good judgement. It's only the (digital)
>> machines that need strict unambigous rules. Let the AI
>> programmers deal with them and remain human ourselves!
>>
>> (inspired by Haim Harari's thoughts in
>> http://edge.org/response-detail/26056)
>>
>>
>> Best regards, Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich and R Core
>>
>>
>> >> -----Original Message----- From: >>
>> wolfgang.viechtba...@maastrichtuniversity.nl Sent: Fri,
>> >> 13 Mar 2015 10:26:04 +0100 To: r-help@r-project.org >>
>> Subject: [R] Course and book announcements on r-help
>> >>
>> >> Dear All,
>> >>
>> >> Just wondering: Is there any official policy on >>
>> announcing R-related courses and books on r-help?
>> >>
>> >> I didn't find anything on this in the posting guide,
>> but >> http://www.r-project.org/mail.html#instructions
>> says that >> r-help is, among other things, for
>> "announcements (not >> covered by 'R-announce' or
>> 'R-packages', see >> above)". That sounds a bit like this
>> would cover courses >> and books, but I am not
>> sure. Obviously, R-announce is >> not meant for that, as
>> it is "for major announcements >> about the development
>> of R and the availability of new >> code" and is to be
>> used "for announcements mainly by the >> R Core
>> Development Team".
>> >>
>> >> I see the occasional course/book announcement, but it
>> >> seems to me that there are a lot more courses and
>> books >> out there compared to how many announcements
>> there are >> related to them on this mailing list. So, I
>> am wondering >> if such announcements are somewhat
>> implicitly >> discouraged.
>> >>
>> >> Best, Wolfgang
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Wolfgang Viechtbauer, Ph.D., Statistician Department
>> of >> Psychiatry and Psychology School for Mental Health
>> and >> Neuroscience Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life
>> >> Sciences Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616 (VIJV1)
>> 6200 >> MD Maastricht, The Netherlands +31 (43) 388-4170
>> | >> http://www.wvbauer.com
>>
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