Or just reminding the rules to the list now and then (as it was done today). I, for one, am happy I got reminded, and appologise for my previous posting. Trying to provide reproductible code forced me to find my own mistake!
mihai hadley wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Personally, I doubt anyone actually reads the bottom of the emails, and generally it is too late anyway, as they have already sent the message. Much like the opening text in R, details in footer tend to trigger legalese neurons and are largely ignored. I think it would be more useful to radically redesign the signup page so that pertinent information is highlighted and the page made easily scannable. As it is, the eye tends to skip to the action part and fill out name and email address without reading the rest of the page. Hadley On 7/16/06, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > I would like to propose that we change the trailer on r-help > messages which is currently: > > [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 > > to add the following 4th line: > > and provide minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > The posting guide is so long that I suspect few people really read > it so at least this way the most important part of the message about > posting would be readily visible without further user action. > > Of course minimal refers to cutting the code down to remove > anything not related to the question at hand while self-contained > and reproducible refer to being able to copy the code from > the post and paste it into an R session to reproduce the > problem. > > ______________________________________________ > [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 > ______________________________________________ [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 Mihai Nica ITT Tech instructor Jackson State University 170 East Griffith St. G5 Jackson, MS 39201 601-914-0361 --------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [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
