Cutting and pasting from the R posting guide -- I think this advice
has special force when responding to FAQ 7.31 questions (I've seen
several within the last few days, and at least two were answered by
three different people:
When responding to a very simple question, use the following algorithm:
compose your response
type 4*runif(1) at the R prompt, and wait this many hours
check for new posts to R-help; if no similar suggestion, post your response
(This is partly in jest, but if you know immediately why it is suggested, you
probably should use it! Also, it's a nice idea to replace 4 by the number of
years you have been using R or S-plus.)
protentially serious R error
3 messages · Ben Bolker, David L Carlson, (Ted Harding)
Congratulations, you've reached the First Circle of the R Inferno. Only 8 more to go http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf ---------------------------------------------- David L Carlson Associate Professor of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4352
-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
project.org] On Behalf Of Ben Bolker
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 7:19 PM
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] protentially serious R error
Cutting and pasting from the R posting guide -- I think this advice
has special force when responding to FAQ 7.31 questions (I've seen
several within the last few days, and at least two were answered by
three different people:
When responding to a very simple question, use the following algorithm:
compose your response
type 4*runif(1) at the R prompt, and wait this many hours
check for new posts to R-help; if no similar suggestion, post your
response
(This is partly in jest, but if you know immediately why it is
suggested, you
probably should use it! Also, it's a nice idea to replace 4 by the
number of
years you have been using R or S-plus.)
______________________________________________ R-help at 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.
That applies to the OP (Xiaofeng, aka "liuxf"), of course. Ben himself is a guardian of all Circles (loc.cit.). With regard to Ben's quote from the Posting Guide, it occurs to me that the more years one has been using R, the more rapdily one should (or should be able to) answer a question. The implication of the Posting Guide is that the time it should take one to respond to a question is inversely proportional to one's experience of using R. This is turn could imply that some users, with the longest experience, may never respond (since, by the time their response is due, adequate responses have probably already been furnished by others, somewhat less experienced). There may be some empirical evidence for this. :) Best wishes to all, Ted.
On 01-Dec-2012 17:54:50 David L Carlson wrote:
Congratulations, you've reached the First Circle of the R Inferno. Only 8 more to go http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf ---------------------------------------------- David L Carlson Associate Professor of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4352
-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
project.org] On Behalf Of Ben Bolker
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 7:19 PM
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] protentially serious R error
Cutting and pasting from the R posting guide -- I think this advice
has special force when responding to FAQ 7.31 questions (I've seen
several within the last few days, and at least two were answered by
three different people:
When responding to a very simple question, use the following algorithm:
compose your response
type 4*runif(1) at the R prompt, and wait this many hours
check for new posts to R-help; if no similar suggestion, post your
response
(This is partly in jest, but if you know immediately why it is
suggested, you
probably should use it! Also, it's a nice idea to replace 4 by the
number of
years you have been using R or S-plus.)
______________________________________________ R-help at 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.
______________________________________________ R-help at 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.
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