Hi, i also strongly recommend an active way for transmitting such informations.
One possibility could be, to give the users "incentives" for using a network connection within R. Stata has a -- i guess -- widely used command, called "net search", which is something like "help.search()", but connecting to stata.com and searches also all the user distributed program files (.ado). If R had something similar, which searches all packages available on CRAN, and not only the installed packages one a) could count the access to this service and b) had a could starting point for questions like "is a function 'doing something' available for R". just my 2 cents ... jan On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Ernesto Jardim wrote: > Hi, > > I agree with Christian. The monitoring must be done in a ACTIVE way by > the user. > > I usually don't use software that has that kind of features and it > annoys me to know that my computer is sending information to someone > whithout my knowledge or permission. > > Best regards > > EJ > > On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 20:04, cstrato wrote: > > At first I want to make clear that I have always paid for the > > software that I use, I am even paying for the shareware that I use. > > > > After this statement let me come to the current discussion: > > It is really shocking that some people even think about integrating > > a spyware system into an open source software project. > > The internet has started as a chaotic and democratic system, but > > is in danger to become the worst "Big Brother is watching you" > > assistant to certain governments and companies, which become a > > danger for the democracy and for peace. > > > > I really hope that the R core developer will never consider such > > a dangerous option! > > > > Having said this, I am willing to ACTIVELY send an e-mail to > > CRAN or R to tell that I am using R. > > > > R is such a great project, developed by a great community in a > > democratic manner, showing how well democracy can work. Adding > > a monitoring system would destroy the whole project. > > > > P.S.: Personally, I have even disabled cookies from my browser, > > both at home and at the company, and I must say, that very seldom > > would I need to enable cookies. If a company web-site forces me > > to enable cookies, than I ignore this company: companies want to > > sell products to customers, and with such a behavior they are > > hopefully loosing customers. > > > > Best regards > > Christian -- +----------------------------------------- Jan Goebel j g o e b e l @ d i w . d e DIW Berlin German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) Königin-Luise-Str. 5 D-14195 Berlin -- Germany -- phone: 49 30 89789-377 +----------------------------------------- ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
