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...ress back with the reviewer. Reviewers can learn new things and will respond to arguments with good evidence behind them. Good luck! Steven McKinney ________________________________________ From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org [r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Kevin R. Coombes [krcoombes at mdacc.tmc.edu] Sent: November 19, 2009 10:47 AM To: r-devel at r-project.org Subject: [Rd] R Usage Statistics Hi, I got the following comment from the reviewer of a paper (describing an algorithm implemented in R) that I submitted to BMC Bioinformatics: "Finally, which useful for explora...

Hi, I got the following comment from the reviewer of a paper (describing an algorithm implemented in R) that I submitted to BMC Bioinformatics: "Finally, which useful for exploratory work and some prototyping, neither R nor S-Plus are appropriate environments for deploying user applications that would receive much use." I can certainly respond by pointing out that CRAN contains

Hi, I recently provoked some discussion over on the BioConductor developer list about testing and R CMD check. In brief, the salient points that arose from the discussion are: [1] Because of the need for a nightly build of BioConductor, the tests (in the ./tests directory) of a package that run routinely as part of "R CMD check" must complete in five minutes. [2] Nontrivial

Hi, I have just updated R from version 2.8.1 to version 2.9.1. I am running Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3. With the update, I decided to update a set of packages that I maintain by compiling them for the new version. Everything worked fine except for one package. This package is unique (among the six I was working on) in that is stored on a UNIX-based file server that is