Lack of replies from me
On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 08:33:59AM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote:
I regret that I have been absent from the list for some time. It happens that in the last couple of weeks I have been involved in a series of extremely unpleasant interactions on another, private email list that have left me with little enthusiasm for developing and supporting CRAN packages. One conclusion I have reached from these interactions is that I will never allow lme4 to be a recommended package in R. I am even having doubts about whether I want it to continue to be a CRAN package at all, as opposed to, say, moving it to Bioconductor or even switching development to another language. I'm sure the last option would be "cutting off my nose to spite my face" and I don't expect I would ever do that. There are many wonderful aspects to R and many reasons why I want to continue to use it. But right now I find myself forced to evaluate options other than putting a package on CRAN.
I'm very sorry to hear about your frustrations, Doug. I'm sure that I speak for all of us when I say that we'll continue to use and support lme4 regardless of the delivery mechanism. Warm wishes Andrew
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