On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 4:41 AM, Patrick Connolly
p_conno...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
| Dear Don and Bert,
| Allow me to address some of your concerns below.
Which you do very clearly by positioning your responses underneath
what you're commenting on. That doesn't seem to be possible on SE.
In
On Tue, 04-Feb-2014 at 01:11AM +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote:
| Dear Don and Bert,
| Allow me to address some of your concerns below.
|
Which you do very clearly by positioning your responses underneath
what you're commenting on. That doesn't seem to be possible on SE.
[...]
| On Mon, Feb 3,
For those defending mailing lists over StackOverflow, can you merge
these threads so later readers do not have to move between multiple
conversations?
1. Re: Should there be an R-beginners list?
2. Re: [R] creating an equivalent of r-help on r.stackexchange.com ?
(was: Re: Should
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
So in the end my proposal is not necessarily for r-help to go to SE,
but more for R to have its own QA forum/wiki for helping R users.
This could perfectly take the form of setting up its own open-source
On 05/02/2014 1:32 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
Dear all,
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
It seems that StackOverflow is officially proposing user-generated
content for download/mirroring:
On Feb 3, 2014, at 8:54 PM, Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Marc Schwartz marc_schwa...@me.com wrote:
Hi All,
As I have noted in a prior reply in this thread, which began last November,
I don't post in SO, but I do keep track of the
Subject: Re: [R] creating an equivalent of r-help on
r.stackexchange.com ?
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For what it's worth, I would like to say that I concur completely with
Don and Bert. (Also I would like
Subject: Re: [R] creating an equivalent of r-help on r.stackexchange.com ?
(was: Re: Should there be an R-beginners list?)
Dear Clint,
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Clint Bowman cl...@ecy.wa.gov wrote:
Liviu,
Thanks for the excellent description of the advantages of SE.
However
application.
Regards,
Jason
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Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 11:24 PM
To: Clint Bowman
Cc: r-help@r-project.org; Bert Gunter
Subject: Re: [R] creating an equivalent of r-help
Dear all,
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:
It seems that StackOverflow is officially proposing user-generated
content for download/mirroring:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/01/stack-exchange-cc-data-now-hosted-by-the-internet-archive/?cb=1
Every browser-based interface I've ever seen has a number of features that
I find to be huge deterrents. To mention just two:
- They waste copious amounts of screen space on irrelevant things such as
votes, the number of views, the elapsed time since something or other
happened, fancy web-page
Don:
First, I apologize if this is off topic, but I thought I should reply publicly.
I would only like to say thank you for so eloquently and elegantly
summarizing my views, also. Maybe that makes me a dinosaur. If so, I
happily accept the label.
I find SO's voting for posting business
Don,
Thanks for the brilliant summary of my thoughts.
Clint
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For what it's worth, I would like to say that I concur completely with
Don and Bert. (Also I would like second Bert's vote of thanks to Don
for expressing the position so clearly.)
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On 04/02/14 09:56, Bert Gunter wrote:
Don:
First, I apologize if this is off topic,
Ditto. And ditto. And (by the way -- no-one seems to have mentioned it)
what are the possibilities, for mail appearing on something like Stack
Exchange, of having the mail sent to oneself so that it can be stored
locally, on one's own machine? That is the only way I would want to
work -- anything
Dear Don and Bert,
Allow me to address some of your concerns below.
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 9:56 PM, Bert Gunter gunter.ber...@gene.com wrote:
I find SO's voting for posting business especially irritating. I wish
merely to post or to read the posts of others without being subjected
to some
Liviu,
Thanks for the excellent description of the advantages of SE. However,
there is a significant fraction of the population that prefers that
information be pushed out to them rather than having to pull it to them.
The best system is one that accommodates both equally well.
Clint
As one of the original ranters of hey lets move to StackOverflow a
few years back (see my UseR! lightning talk from Warwick) I should
probably stick my oar in.
I don't think the SO model is a good model for all the discussions
that go on on R-help.
I think SO is a good model for questions that
Hi All,
As I have noted in a prior reply in this thread, which began last November, I
don't post in SO, but I do keep track of the traffic there via RSS feeds.
However, the RSS feeds are primarily for new posts and do not seem to update
with follow ups to the initial post.
I do wish that they
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Marc Schwartz marc_schwa...@me.com wrote:
Hi All,
As I have noted in a prior reply in this thread, which began last November, I
don't post in SO, but I do keep track of the traffic there via RSS feeds.
However, the RSS feeds are primarily for new posts and
Dear Clint,
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Clint Bowman cl...@ecy.wa.gov wrote:
Liviu,
Thanks for the excellent description of the advantages of SE. However,
there is a significant fraction of the population that prefers that
information be pushed out to them rather than having to pull it
Dear Duncan,
I discovered something interesting wrt to the licensing and mirroring
of user-contributed material on StackExchange. Please read below.
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Duncan Murdoch
murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not aware of a discussion on this, but I would say no.
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