> I somewhat agree with Spencer -- as I have mentioned, the recent precedence > with tz database shows that such claims would not be taken as ungrounded right > away and things could easily go all the way to court -- and that might be a > really costly endeavor regardless who is right or wrong. Proving that > data is factual, and not fictional/creative/original might be another > challenge > in quite a few cases I bet.
I think it's generally easy to tell if something is a fact or not, and I doubt any of the datasets in R are fictional. Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
