R devel - Jun 2005 - Suggestion for the R Bugs web page

Hi all,

I would like to recommend that the following text from the R Posting
Guide be placed on the R Bug submission page in the section "Submit New
Reports", which would read as follows:

Submit New Reports

You can submit new bug reports either using an online form by clicking
on the button below or by sending email to r-bugs at biostat.ku.dk. 

Before you post a real bug report, make sure you read R Bugs in the
R-faq. If you're not completely and utterly sure something is a bug,
post a question to r-help, not a bug report to r-bugs - every bug report
requires manual action by one of the R-core members.

If you wish to comment upon an existing report, you cannot do that via
the web interface. Instead send an email to the above address with the
Subject: header containing (PR#999) -- replace 999 with actual report
number, of course.



Perhaps reading that brief middle section, without having to click to
another page, will help to reduce user error reports going to R Bugs and
save members of R Core some time.



Also, as a quick pointer, I noted that there is a repeated word
("for")
on the R Home Page in the "Getting Started" box:

R is a free software environment _for for_ statistical computing and
graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms,
Windows and MacOS. To download R, please choose your preferred CRAN
mirror.


Best regards,

Marc Schwartz

Thank you, Marc, for your suggestion.
>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Schwartz <MSchwartz at
mednetstudy.com>
>>>>>     on Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:15:00 -0500 writes:
    Marc> Hi all,
    Marc> I would like to recommend that the following text from the R
Posting
    Marc> Guide be placed on the R Bug submission page in the section
"Submit New
    Marc> Reports", which would read as follows:

    Marc> Submit New Reports

    Marc> You can submit new bug reports either using an online form by
clicking
    Marc> on the button below or by sending email to r-bugs at biostat.ku.dk.

actually, nobody should advertize that e-mail (but maybe those
at ku.dk, when they talk about it inside DK), 
but rather  r-bugs at r-project.org .

The advantage of the latter is its "genericity" and the fact
that mails are filtered a bit more.

    Marc> Before you post a real bug report, make sure you read R Bugs in the
    Marc> R-faq. If you're not completely and utterly sure something is a
bug,
    Marc> post a question to r-help, not a bug report to r-bugs - every bug
report
    Marc> requires manual action by one of the R-core members.

    Marc> If you wish to comment upon an existing report, you cannot do that
via
    Marc> the web interface. Instead send an email to the above address with
the
    Marc> Subject: header containing (PR#999) -- replace 999 with actual
report
    Marc> number, of course.

------------

    Marc> Perhaps reading that brief middle section, without having to click
to
    Marc> another page, will help to reduce user error reports going to R
Bugs and
    Marc> save members of R Core some time.

Note that we (well, primarily Peter Dalgaard) have considered
complete changes to the R-bugs "system" anyway some of which
would obliterate the e-mail interface completely IIRC.


    Marc> Also, as a quick pointer, I noted that there is a repeated word
("for")
    Marc> on the R Home Page in the "Getting Started" box:

    > R is a free software environment _for for_ statistical computing and
    > graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms,
    > Windows and MacOS. To download R, please choose your preferred CRAN
    > mirror.

I've fixed that one --- haven't checked for how many months this
has remained unreported....

Thank you, Marc!
Martin

    Marc> Best regards,

    Marc> Marc Schwartz