On 29-Apr-04 Thomas Lumley wrote: > On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, John Maindonald wrote: > >> This is, of course, not strictly about R. But if there should be >> a decision to pursue such matters on this list, then we'd need >> another list to which such discussion might be diverted. >> > > Ted Harding started such a list (stats-discuss) quite some time ago. > IIRC it was to divert discussions like this from allstat.
I did indeed! But it hardly ever received any postings -- my suspicion, which was reinforced by private comments from a number of people, was that because it ws *not* allstat (and therefore would not catch the eye of UK people that posters might hope to reach) it could not be expected to. As one person put it: "One list to find them all ... ". The R list is special, in many ways, and you can get views and information on practically anything from some of the best in the world, so long as it is R-related (even sometimes remotely). The present thread was started by Greg Tarpinian asking a question in a place where he thought he might get a response, even though not in an R context (though it seems oone may develop -- linking R to Bayesian inference). After a few public postings, interested parties have retired to another room (where others are welcome to join us) for a while; we now number 6. Agreed it could be continued on another list (even stats-discuss, which still exists though totally dormant), but this may not suit everyone. Things are doing fine at the moment. But it might prove to be a useful overspill area from teh R list -- someone starts a ball rolling which doesn;t relly belong here, and other could chase it on stats-discuss. So I'm keeping options open. There's also a list [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is active, though comfortably low-traffic. Best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 29-Apr-04 Time: 16:39:04 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ [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
