Please stop this dogmatic war against/in_favor_of Word & Co. or I'm forced to close this thread.
No-one obliges anyone to use Word and no product can be dangerous to R (by any meaning of the word "dangerous"). If someone wants to write code for some I/O API to allow interoperability between R and other products, he/she is welcome. That being said, I'm not the one. stefano On 29/gen/07, at 22:08, Mick McQuaid wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
