Dear Patrick: Thanks for doing this.
Just picking nits: To end the second paragraph in Sec. 2, you say, "If your goal is to find what is in your data, then almost surely R will be the best tool for you sooner or later." I think this is an overstatement. R is for people who can't easily get what they want from standard packages, either because they can't afford it or because they want to explore data analysis possibilities beyond those offered by the package(s) available to them. You clearly paint a more balanced view in the rest of the manuscript, and apart from this one comment, what you wrote sounds sensible to me. Best Wishes, Spencer Graves Patrick Burns wrote: > You may recall that there was a discussion of a technical > report from the statistical consulting group at UCLA. > > I have a draft of a comment on that report, which you > can get from > http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Flotsam/uclaRcomment_draft1.pdf > > I'm interested in comments: corrections, additions, deletions. > > Patrick Burns > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +44 (0)20 8525 0696 > http://www.burns-stat.com > (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html