On 18/09/19 6:00 PM, Benjamin Lang wrote:
Dear R project, I have a very simple question: How, in late 2019, is there an option called "--slave" to "make R run as quietly as possible"? Let me reiterate that it is 2019, i.e. "The Future", rather than 1970 when R was presumably developed, based on its atrocious syntax, documentation and usability (I think I only need to say "NaN", "NULL", and "NA"). This is a disgrace and it should have been addressed one or two decades ago. Why not just "--quiet"? Please do not mention "backwards compatibility".
Personally I much prefer backwards compatibility to political correctness.
For the historically inclined, it does not make much of a difference whether the term evokes the Roman, Greek, American or modern kind of slavery for you: it is as disgusting as it gets.
IMHO this is a precious PC quibble, taking offence where no offence is intended.
If you are really concerned about literal slavery --- as everyone should be --- then join/contribute to an appropriate activist organisation (e.g. Amnesty International, which is my personal choice).
cheers, Rolf Turner -- Honorary Research Fellow Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
