R help - Oct 2011 - Cross posting (was "Restricted Cubic Splines within survfit.cph)

You wrote:
  "It may be best to either write to the package maintainer (me, as you
did) or post to the group but not both."

This is just a note that I disagree wrt my own packages:
    I go on vacation or trips, or have other projects so won't always
answer
    Other folks on the list often have good ideas that I'd miss

 My preferred standard is  "ask the list, with a copy to Therneau as an
additional courtesy".  Of course if it's an out and out bug you've
found, that no one else but me can deal with, then one can skip the
list.

Terry T.

Terry I would just add that if someone contacts the maintainer and does 
not follow the advice of the maintainer, still has problems, and posts a 
message to the list, then some time is wasted.

Frank

On 10/12/2011 07:38 AM, Terry Therneau wrote:
> You wrote:
>    "It may be best to either write to the package maintainer (me, as
you
> did) or post to the group but not both."
>
> This is just a note that I disagree wrt my own packages:
>      I go on vacation or trips, or have other projects so won't always
> answer
>      Other folks on the list often have good ideas that I'd miss
>
>   My preferred standard is  "ask the list, with a copy to Therneau as
an
> additional courtesy".  Of course if it's an out and out bug
you've
> found, that no one else but me can deal with, then one can skip the
> list.
>
> Terry T.
>
>
>
>
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                    Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University