I'm disappointed by the short-sightedness of this message. ... regarding a message from Richard De Veaux on Jan 29: > I don't think this forum is the appropriate place for personal harangues > against Word. There are enough other R issues to keep us busy.
Word is the software equivalent of Caulerpa taxifolia, the green alga that tries to make its environment as inhospitable to other living organisms as it can. If you just sit there and do nothing, it will eventually stifle anything that threatens it, and this includes any software of any type that is platform-neutral. Platform neutrality threatens the monopoly. In other words, I am saying that Word is dangerous to R. I don't expect casual MS Office users in general to understand this, but it really surprises me to see a lack of resistance to MS Office in a group like this. ... regarding a message from Richard De Veaux on Jan 29: > I don't think this forum is the appropriate place for personal harangues > against Word. There are enough other R issues to keep us busy. > > Cheers, > Dick De Veaux > > > > On 1/29/07 2:25 PM, "Federico Calboli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 29 Jan 2007, at 19:07, Ben Bolker wrote: > > > >> Have you ever tried to submit a LaTeX document (or any non-Word > >> format: PDF, DVI, RTF, ...) to a biological > >> journal? > > > > Just refuse to referee anything sent to you, and to fill in any form > > as a referee, if they are in .doc. Point out they are *not* a > > standard. Ask colleagues to do the same. > > > > People do respond to incentives. > > > > Best, > > > > Federico > > > > -- > > Federico C. F. Calboli > > Department of Epidemiology and Public Health > > Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus > > Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG > > > > Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 > > > > f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk > > f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > -- Michael McQuaid, Assistant Professor School of Information, School of Art & Design University of Michigan 305B West Hall, 1085 South University Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107 734-647-9550 voice 734-764-2475 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mickmcquaid.com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
