On 04-Feb-09 20:45:04, Nutter, Benjamin wrote: > <snip> > Those of us on this list (with the possible exception of one or > two nutters) would take it that it goes without saying that R was > developed on the basis of S --- we all ***know*** that. > <snip> > > Just want to clarify that the nutters referred to here are not > the same as the Nutters that bear my name :-)
Surely the Nutters are a Movement or a Party[1] whose members are nutters? [1] In the UK we have long had the Monster Raving Loony Party, which (at least in a 1990 bye-election) made a serious dent in the political scene. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Raving_Looney_Party :-) Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 04-Feb-09 Time: 21:04:55 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ 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.