Patrick Burns likely is closest to the truth in noting that the editing of the NYT article was possibly savage. The author is probably fuming, and can't do much or he'll not get future work.
I was a columnist for Interface Age and then a sub-editor for Byte in the early 80s. If an ad came in close to the deadline for printing, my math articles could get very scrambled, and some people close to the subject would get mad at me. All I could do was send them the original copy. But it's really worth remembering that there is rarely any bad publicity if one wants to get noticed -- as I assume we want R to be. It's a pity the furore on this list isn't more in the popular media. JN ______________________________________________ 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.
