May I add to Michael's comment: 1) There is no formal service; the R Core team members and other regular contributors who do yeo-persons' service do so entirely voluntarily and at their individual discretion..
2) The whole cultural/sociological phenomenon of R strikes me as remarkable. Granting that S and S-Plus provided the essential framework and template, it still strikes me as amazing that such a powerful flexible software system could be constructed, maintained, and documented with such high quality and consistency by such a geographically separated team, especially as they did/do it "part-time" and voluntarily. Surely this is testimony to both their wisdom and hard work. 3). Given their efforts on our behalf, I think it behooves us to be as considerate and solicitous as possible by first following the advice to read Help files, FAQ's and posting guides before wasting their time with queries that do not require their sage advice. -- Bert Gunter Non-Clinical Biostatistics Genentech MS: 240B Phone: 650-467-7374 "The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process." -- George E.P. Box Michael Rennie wrote: > Hi there, > > I just wanted to take a quick second to thank everyone who maintains this > service- just in case you don't hear it enough, there are a plethora of people > who rely on this service (as evidenced by the help archives), and even if they > don't say it, are greatly thankful for what you do here. Not only are you > providing a service to people who are learning R, but indeed helping > increase "R literacy". Soon, they'll be speaking R on the subway. > > Thank you all, once again. You are all wonderful people. > > -- > Michael Rennie > Ph.D. Candidate > University of Toronto at Mississauga > 3359 Mississauga Rd. N. > Mississauga ON L5L 1C6 > Ph: 905-828-5452 Fax: 905-828-3792 > > ______________________________________________ > [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 ______________________________________________ [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
