Posting summaries is customary (or used to be) on S-news, where it was customary to reply to the poster, and not always the whole list. (Whereas on R it is requested that replies be posted to the entire list, which makes summaries less necessary.)

However, a good summary can be a very useful thing (and Ajay's summary was very nicely done). What about making it the custom on R-list that the recipient of helpful responses post a summary on a Wiki? This could be a good way for recipients of help to give something back to the community, and it might provide a sufficient input of energy to take a wiki past critical mass, such as the one mentioned by Gabor Grothendieck last year:

> From: "Gabor Grothendieck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:53:59 -0500 (EST)
> [snip]  Actually someone did set up an R wiki some time ago at:
>
>  http://fawn.unibw-hamburg.de/cgi-bin/Rwiki.pl?RwikiHome
>
> yet no one really used it.  Some critical mass of use is needed
> to get such a project off the ground.

Comments?

-- Tony Plate

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