Hi Martin, Maybe we should appeal to each others' vanity ("Just think how many hundreds---even thousands---of people will use your package once they know about it....") Hmmm. Maybe that would have the opposite of the intended effect. Cheers, Hank On Jun 12, 2007, at 3:16 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> "MHHS" == Martin Henry H Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>> on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:23:46 -0400 writes: > > MHHS> Hi Folks, I was wondering what everyone thought about > MHHS> adding a sentence to each package update announcement > MHHS> that described what the package did. R extensions are > MHHS> so numerous that it is difficult to keep up with them. > MHHS> Would it be appropriate to ask package developers to > MHHS> add a brief sentence about what the package does, when > MHHS> they announce updates? > > Thanks a lot, Hank! > > I've been supporting your suggestion ever since I had created > 'R-packages' ( = "R package announcements mailing list"). > > As moderator, I even occasionally rejected postings to > R-packages exactly by requiring such short information preceding > any notice of changes. > > I think that >99% of the package authors would also agree, but > then we are all humans and hence sometimes get into peculiar > world views such as "there's my package, and there's R and then > rest of the universe" ;-) > > Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich > > MHHS> I would benefit from such descriptions. > > MHHS> Cheers, Hank > > MHHS> Dr. Hank Stevens, Assistant Professor 338 Pearson Hall > MHHS> Botany Department Miami University Oxford, OH 45056 > > MHHS> Office: (513) 529-4206 Lab: (513) 529-4262 FAX: (513) > MHHS> 529-4243 http://www.cas.muohio.edu/~stevenmh/ > MHHS> http://www.muohio.edu/ecology/ > MHHS> http://www.muohio.edu/botany/ > > MHHS> "E Pluribus Unum" > > MHHS> ______________________________________________ > MHHS> R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > MHHS> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do > MHHS> read the posting guide > MHHS> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and > MHHS> provide commented, minimal, self-contained, > MHHS> reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.