Re: [Rd] Competing with one's own work

2010-12-06 Thread Terry Therneau
Ben raised an interesting point: "A better question might be how packages get added to the *recommended* package list (rather than how code gets added to "base R")." As maintainer of survival one of the surprising things is the number of packages that depend on mine. This has caused me to chang

Re: [Rd] Competing with one's own work

2010-12-05 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 03/12/2010 4:08 PM, Ben Bolker wrote: Ravi Varadhan jhmi.edu> writes: "The decision about whether it belongs in a package or in base R is about who should maintain the code." Ok. I understand it now. Thanks, Ravi. A point that may not have been made (sorry if it was and I missed

Re: [Rd] Competing with one's own work (Prof. John C Nash)

2010-12-04 Thread Jay Emerson
John, thanks for starting (or restarting) this thread.  I'd like to add to the discussion with another concrete example, about as simple as it gets, which may help focus at least part of this discussion. I have worked with Taylor Arnold to implement a method developed in Conover (1972) for Kolmogo

Re: [Rd] Competing with one's own work

2010-12-03 Thread Ben Bolker
Ravi Varadhan jhmi.edu> writes: > > "The decision about whether it belongs in a package or in base R is > about who should maintain the code." > > Ok. I understand it now. > > Thanks, > Ravi. > A point that may not have been made (sorry if it was and I missed it): A better question m

Re: [Rd] Competing with one's own work

2010-12-03 Thread Paul Gilbert
tes >Sent: December 3, 2010 1:28 PM >To: Ravi Varadhan >Cc: r-devel@r-project.org; nas...@uottawa.ca >Subject: Re: [Rd] Competing with one's own work > >On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Ravi Varadhan >wrote: >> Dear Duncan, > >> What constitutes a

Re: [Rd] Competing with one's own work

2010-12-03 Thread Ravi Varadhan
; > Ph. (410) 502-2619 > email: rvarad...@jhmi.edu > > > -Original Message----- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] > On Behalf Of Duncan Murdoch > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 11:13 AM > To: nas...@uottawa.ca > Cc: r-devel@r-pr

Re: [Rd] Competing with one's own work

2010-12-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Friday, December 03, 2010 11:13 AM To: nas...@uottawa.ca Cc: r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] Competing with one's own work On 03/12/2010 10:57 AM, Prof. John C Nash wrote: > No, this is not about Rcpp, but a comment in that overly long discussion raised a question > that has bee

Re: [Rd] Competing with one's own work

2010-12-03 Thread Ravi Varadhan
rom: dmba...@gmail.com [mailto:dmba...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Douglas Bates Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 1:28 PM To: Ravi Varadhan Cc: Duncan Murdoch; nas...@uottawa.ca; r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] Competing with one's own work On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Ravi Varadhan wro

Re: [Rd] Competing with one's own work

2010-12-03 Thread Douglas Bates
vel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] > On Behalf Of Duncan Murdoch > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 11:13 AM > To: nas...@uottawa.ca > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] Competing with one's own work > > On 03/12/2010 10:57 AM, Prof. John C Na

Re: [Rd] Competing with one's own work

2010-12-03 Thread Ravi Varadhan
ttawa.ca Cc: r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] Competing with one's own work On 03/12/2010 10:57 AM, Prof. John C Nash wrote: > No, this is not about Rcpp, but a comment in that overly long discussion raised a question > that has been in my mind for a while. > > This is t

Re: [Rd] Competing with one's own work

2010-12-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 03/12/2010 10:57 AM, Prof. John C Nash wrote: No, this is not about Rcpp, but a comment in that overly long discussion raised a question that has been in my mind for a while. This is that one may have work that is used in R in the base functionality and there are improvements that should be