Tony Plate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > <h3>Common posting mistakes</h3> > > Doing any of the following may result in you getting a > response that you may find rude or insulting. (However, > such a response may be justified in the eyes of some because > you have wasted people's time or unjustly insulted people's > work.) > > * Not doing your homework before posting a question. > > * Asking R-help to do your classroom homework for you > (remember that many of the subscribers of R-help are > university professors and can recognize homework questions > with great speed and accuracy) > > * Claiming that something is a bug when in fact the software > is working as intended and documented, just not in the way > you first expected. > > * Claiming that some commonly used function is not behaving > in what you think is a sensible manner (it's far more > productive and polite to just ask why it behaves the way > it does if you think it is odd -- but only after reading > all the relevant documentation!)
* Threatening not to use the software if you cannot get your question answered. Even when intended as a statement of fact, it tends to create negative attitudes. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help