Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list

2012-02-16 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 12:21 -0500, Sarah Goslee wrote: > Hello, > > I'm one of the maintainers of the r-sig-ecology list, and I think > it would be entirely appropriate to include hydrology within > the scope of the list. I also agree. It was always the intention AFAICR for the R-SIG-Ecology list

Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list

2012-02-16 Thread Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini
On 16/02/12 12:51, Sarah Goslee wrote: Dear Martin, Thank you for confirming what I'd already suspected about the mailing list software. What a pity that is not possible, but thank you very much Martin for confirming and explaining why is not possible. I've added hydrology explicitly to t

Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list

2012-02-16 Thread Sarah Goslee
Dear Martin, Thank you for confirming what I'd already suspected about the mailing list software. I've added hydrology explicitly to the list description, and hope that the hydrologists find it a welcoming home. We've got a solid core of participants, so R users should find it a useful resource.

Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list

2012-02-16 Thread Martin Maechler
Hi, I'm the "site maintainer" of the r-sig-...@r-project.org mailing lists (and back from vacations). > Sarah Goslee > on Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:16:01 -0500 writes: > Hi all, >> It would be great if Sara of someone of the maintainers >> of the r-sig-ecology list could add t

Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list

2012-02-15 Thread Sarah Goslee
Hi all, > It would be great if Sara of someone of the maintainers of the r-sig-ecology > list could add that info to the info page. I'm talking with the other maintainer about revising both the short and the long descriptions. > I think that r-sig-env would be much more intuitive for environment

Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list

2012-02-15 Thread Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini
On 15/02/12 09:07, Dominik Reusser wrote: Dear all, I do think that joining efforts is a good idea. However, hydrologists will probably not intuitively think about joining r-sig-ecology to discuss hydrological issues. Could we therefore explicitely state on the infopage that discussions to hydrol

Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list

2012-02-15 Thread Dominik Reusser
> mauricio.zambr...@jrc.ec.europa.eu > Cc: > Dominik Reusser , r-devel@r-project.org, > w.buyta...@imperial.ac.uk > Date: > 02/14/2012 11:24 AM > Subject: > Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list > Sent by: > r-devel-boun...@r-project.org > > > &

Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list

2012-02-15 Thread David L Lorenz
t: Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list Sent by: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org Hello, I'm one of the maintainers of the r-sig-ecology list, and I think it would be entirely appropriate to include hydrology within the scope of the list. There hasn't been much hydrologic discussion, a

Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list

2012-02-14 Thread Sarah Goslee
Hello, I'm one of the maintainers of the r-sig-ecology list, and I think it would be entirely appropriate to include hydrology within the scope of the list. There hasn't been much hydrologic discussion, as you noted, but not because we wish to exclude it. Sarah On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:31 AM,

Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list

2012-02-14 Thread Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini
On 14/02/12 17:45, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Have you asked the maintainers of those lists? Or the person who would have to do the work to set the list up (Martin Maechler, who is currently on vacation, or colleagues at ETHZ)? No, I haven't done yet, but I'll do it, to know which list is the rig

Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list

2012-02-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Have you asked the maintainers of those lists? Or the person who would have to do the work to set the list up (Martin Maechler, who is currently on vacation, or colleagues at ETHZ)? My suspicion is that there would be too little traffic to make a separate list worthwhile to administer. (You

Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list

2012-02-14 Thread Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini
On 14/02/12 09:36, Rainer M Krug wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/02/12 17:30, Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini wrote: Dear R developers, Due to the increasing use R in hydrology and other close-related environmental sciences, I would like to ask if it would be possible to

Re: [Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list

2012-02-14 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/02/12 17:30, Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini wrote: > Dear R developers, > > Due to the increasing use R in hydrology and other close-related > environmental sciences, I would like to ask if it would be possible > to create a new Special Interest G

[Rd] requesting a new SIG mailing list

2012-02-13 Thread Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini
Dear R developers, Due to the increasing use R in hydrology and other close-related environmental sciences, I would like to ask if it would be possible to create a new Special Interest Group mailing list, called 'R-sig-hydro', specially devoted those topics. If possible to do so, I'd offer mys