Dear Josh, > Your analogy may overstate the case a bit,
Agreed. :-) > since R volunteers - while > providing a valuable service to the community - are not dealing with > matters of life and death. I see your point, and it is well taken. At the same time, in my view, statistics are like firearms in every respect save one: they typically don't rust when you leave them outside in the rain. Regards, Jay *************************************************** G. Jay Kerns, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Mathematics & Statistics Youngstown State University Youngstown, OH 44555-0002 USA Office: 1035 Cushwa Hall Phone: (330) 941-3310 Office (voice mail) -3302 Department -3170 FAX E-mail: gke...@ysu.edu http://www.cc.ysu.edu/~gjkerns/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel