R help - Jun 2004 - RE: summaries (was: SUMMARY: "elementary sapply question")

Ajay,

thank you very much for picking up that age-old habit of 
posting summaries.

It existed years ago on s-help and I find it is still a great
thing: I would not have bothered to read your original question
nor the answers you got, but I did read the summary -- and I
learned something quite interesting!

Maybe some others who receive multiple non-elementary answers to their
questions could sometimes bother to compile a summary so
that some of the bystanders be educated at low cost??
Unrealistic?
I'd be willing to do it for my own questions if it was at
least a little common.

  Lutz

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:42:15PM +0200, Lutz Prechelt
wrote:
> Ajay,
> 
> thank you very much for picking up that age-old habit of 
> posting summaries.
> 
> It existed years ago on s-help and I find it is still a great
> thing: I would not have bothered to read your original question
> nor the answers you got, but I did read the summary -- and I
> learned something quite interesting!
> 
> Maybe some others who receive multiple non-elementary answers to their
> questions could sometimes bother to compile a summary so
> that some of the bystanders be educated at low cost??
> Unrealistic?
> I'd be willing to do it for my own questions if it was at
> least a little common.
:-) I'm an old geezer; have been posting summaries on newsgroups in
this fashion since 1989.

-- 
Ajay Shah                                                   Consultant
ajayshah at mayin.org                      Department of Economic Affairs
http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah           Ministry of Finance, New Delhi