On Feb 28, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Tal Galili wrote:
Duncan,
As much as I agree with your remark in the general case, in this
case - the
annoyance is mostly for the next user and not the current one.
If I spot a typo, after I figure what it had meant - my annoyance is
over.
I don't have any personal motivation to share the knowledge, asides
from my
good intentions.
It would seem to me that making my life easier in reporting the
error -
would only do good to the general community.
I think the idea of adding a second link to the Index at the top of
every
help, is easy to do and would benefit the community member who
wishes to
contact the author.
I also think that adding the e-mail of the maintainer might even be
better
(since I remember that when I started using R, I didn't even know I
had
someone to contact regarding problems with it).
This is the place people turn to for help,
Well, I got help. Sharpie gave an answer that was easily turned into a
function that I put in my .Rprofile:
> maintainer
function(pkg="") packageDescription(pkg)$Maintainer
> maintainer("brew")
[1] "Jeffrey Horner <jeff.hor...@vanderbilt.edu>"
it makes sense (at least in my
humble opinion) to help the users find other help from that
location. (the
same way we provide "see also" and other useful links)
David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT
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