Message-ID: <20111113115330.6a77062e@XXX>
Date: 2011-11-13T19:53:30Z
From: Alex Ruiz Euler
Subject: R development master class: NYC, Dec 12-13
In-Reply-To: <CABdHhvEmM3PwHd9ji8XZQAOJu5J_bzfn=WWb0H1763b0L2v50Q@mail.gmail.com>
Ha! Point publicly acknowledged.
Best,
A.
On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:41:36 -0600
Hadley Wickham <hadley at rice.edu> wrote:
> > No seriously, as much as I'm for free enterprise, it feels awkward to
> > see you promote an (expensive!) course in a list where people offer not
> > only their knowledge, but also the tools you use, for free.
>
> You might have a point if I taught this course instead of offering
> knowledge and code for free, but I do it as well. Over the years I
> have contributed thousands of answers on R-help and hundreds on
> stackoverflow. I've written dozens of open-source packages and look
> after several R related mailing lists. I make pre-prints of all my
> papers available for free, I release all my lecture notes under
> creative commons licenses and I'm a supporting benefactor of the R
> foundation (or at least I've submitted the paperwork, I'm not yet
> listed on the site). What more do you want?!
>
> Some of the money I earn from these courses goes to pay for my summer
> salary and supports student research. It also gives me confidence that
> if I don't get tenure because I've been writing R packages instead of
> papers, I can keep doing the work I love.
>
> Hadley
>
>
> --
> Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair
> Department of Statistics / Rice University
> http://had.co.nz/