On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Jari Oksanen wrote: > On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 13:13 -0700, Thomas Lumley wrote: > >> Both for this and for working out why Tcl/Tk isn't installed you might be >> better off trying R-sig-mac rather than r-help >> > > This is a very common piece of advice. However, this is not what you > would imagine if you read the description of R-SIG-mac on the R home > page:
It is not actually on the R home page or even on www.r-project.org. I think you mean https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac This arises because the purpose of the list has changed from R Special Interest Group on Macintosh Development and Porting, both for MacOS 8.6 - 9.x and MacOS X I think a wording like R-sig-debian namely R Special Interest Group for MacOS X ports of R would be better. > R-SIG-Mac R Special Interest Group on Mac Development > > This is very similar to the description of R-devel: > > This list is intended for questions and discussion about code > development in R. > > And that description is even more intimidating when you read further: > > Questions likely to prompt discussion unintelligible to non-programmers > or topics that are too technical for R-help's audience should go to > R-devel > > Would it make sense to change the description of R-SIG-mac so that it > would welcome question on R usage in Mac, instead of being a "Mac > Devolepment" forum that sounds like being "unintelligible to > non-programmers"? Which seems quite reasonable to me. The topics which provoke this response usually are questions unintelligible except to Mac sysadmins/programmers and definitely `too technical for R-help's audience'. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
