When Haydn was asked about his 100+ symphonies he is reputed to have replied "sunt mala bona mixta" which is kind of dog latin for "There are good ones and bad ones all mixed together". It's certainly the same with R packages so to continue the latin motif: "caveat emptor" The R engine, on the other hand, is pretty well uniformly excellent code but you have to take my word for that. Actually, you don't. The whole engine is open source so, if you wish, you can check every line of it. If people were out to push dodgy software, this is not the way they'd go about it. Bill Venables. -----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of msck9 at mizzou.edu Sent: Thursday, 27 January 2005 3:10 PM To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] A "rude" question Dear all, I am beginner using R. I have a question about it. When you use it, since it is written by so many authors, how do you know that the results are trustable?(I don't want to affend anyone, also I trust people). But I think this should be a question. Thanks, Ming ______________________________________________ R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
A "rude" question
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