I'm in favor of this suggestion as well. There are two things I find frustrating about the general R-help list: 1) Much of the high volume of traffic on that list exists because of the shortcomings (or at best uneven quality) of the available documentation, especially for contributed packages. (The R core documentation is mostly pretty good, although it seems poorly organized at times.) 2) It seems to that, for many of those posting on R-help, statistical computing is an end in itself. For me, and I hope for this list in general, it is a means to an end, the end being good data analysis that provides scientific insight. I'm hoping that this list can avoid those sources of frustration. Regards, Mark A. Dr. Mark C. Andersen, Professor Department of Fishery and Wildlife Sciences New Mexico State University Las Cruces NM 88003-0003 phone: 575-646-8034 fax: 575-646-1281
ecology or environmetrics?
2 messages · Mark Andersen, Ben Bolker
Mark Andersen wrote:
I'm in favor of this suggestion as well. There are two things I find frustrating about the general R-help list: 1) Much of the high volume of traffic on that list exists because of the shortcomings (or at best uneven quality) of the available documentation, especially for contributed packages. (The R core documentation is mostly pretty good, although it seems poorly organized at times.)
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I'm hoping that this list can avoid those sources of frustration. Regards, Mark A.
I'm not really sure how restricting the topic to ecology/environmetrics is going to remove that source of frustration ... there will certainly be lower traffic because it's a subset of the people, though ... Ben Bolker -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-ecology/attachments/20080417/a38b2e62/attachment.bin