On 28 Mar 2004 at 16:52, ivo welch wrote:
>
> ladies and gents:
>
> I have posted a couple of simple questions recently. As often happens
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.> I was told by Brian to stop sending such suggestions, in order not to
> clutter the R bug report list. OK, I can save my time; I just wanted
He told you stop sending them to R-bugs!
When you get a little more experience, send them to r-help
Then they will not clutter the R bug report list.
Kjetil Halvorsen
> to help. But, for others' sake, please reconsider the policy of not
> gearing the internal R documentation for novices like myself.
>
> I will butt out here.
>
> regards,
>
> /ivo
>
> PS: Incidentally, the R help seems a little schizophrenic. For
> example, Brian Ripley is the most helpful source for learning R (both
> books and posts), and I am rather grateful for it. I just do not
> understand why, at the same time, he seems to be annoyed while
> fielding questions of the r-help post-list. He is not the only
> individual who likes to help, but grudgingly so...
>
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