[R] draft of posting guide. Sorry.

[Patrick Connolly]

On Tue, 23-Dec-2003 at 05:31AM +0100, Eryk Wolski wrote:

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|> I cooled down now and therefore give me a chance to explain why
|> that user guide scares me.

A few comments:



|> As I said, the guide had given me the feeling that someone wants to
|> censor me. 

You mean you reacted in a way that gave you that feeling.  Let's get
cause and effect straight.

|> Especially the first section of the Posting Guide: "How to ask good
|> questions that prompt useful answers" does this. The guide starts
|> with talking mainly about what you should not, or what you must not
|> do.

If I want something to work, I take notice of what the suppliers
suggest is a good way to get it to work.  I never take such suggestions
as being prescriptive.  Once I know more about it, I feel free to
disregard any of them.  Posters can ignore anything in the guide if
they so wish.  Robust debate gets the brain working, but some feathers
might get ruffled in the process.


|> At last I like to mention one important source of help which are missing
|> in the posting guide, and which I forgot these days by myself: R CMD -help
|> and R --help are also very important help sources! If I had remembered it

A good suggestion.


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