R help - Jul 2004 - Kudos to the R support team

Hi there,

I just wanted to take a quick second to thank everyone who maintains this 
service- just in case you don't hear it enough, there are a plethora of
people
who rely on this service (as evidenced by the help archives), and even if they 
don't say it, are greatly thankful for what you do here. Not only are you 
providing a service to people who are learning R, but indeed helping 
increase "R literacy". Soon, they'll be speaking R on the subway.

Thank you all, once again. You are all wonderful people.

-- 
Michael Rennie
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Toronto at Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Rd. N.
Mississauga ON  L5L 1C6
Ph: 905-828-5452  Fax: 905-828-3792

May I add to Michael's comment:

1) There is no formal service; the R Core team members and other regular
contributors who do yeo-persons' service do so entirely voluntarily and at
their
individual discretion..

2) The whole cultural/sociological phenomenon of R strikes me as remarkable.
Granting that S and S-Plus provided the essential framework and template, it
still
strikes me as amazing that such a powerful flexible software system could be
constructed, maintained, and documented with such high quality and consistency
by
such a geographically separated team, especially as they did/do it
"part-time" and
voluntarily. Surely this is testimony to both their wisdom and hard work.

3). Given their efforts on our behalf, I think it behooves us to be as
considerate
and solicitous as possible by first following the advice to read Help files,
FAQ's
and posting guides before wasting their time with queries that do not require
their sage advice.

--

Bert Gunter

Non-Clinical Biostatistics
Genentech
MS: 240B
Phone: 650-467-7374


"The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning
process."

 -- George E.P. Box



Michael Rennie wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I just wanted to take a quick second to thank everyone who maintains this
> service- just in case you don't hear it enough, there are a plethora of
people
> who rely on this service (as evidenced by the help archives), and even if
they
> don't say it, are greatly thankful for what you do here. Not only are
you
> providing a service to people who are learning R, but indeed helping
> increase "R literacy". Soon, they'll be speaking R on the
subway.
>
> Thank you all, once again. You are all wonderful people.
>
> --
> Michael Rennie
> Ph.D. Candidate
> University of Toronto at Mississauga
> 3359 Mississauga Rd. N.
> Mississauga ON  L5L 1C6
> Ph: 905-828-5452  Fax: 905-828-3792
>
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