[R] Cross posting (was "Restricted Cubic Splines within survfit.cph)
Frank Harrell
f.harrell at Vanderbilt.Edu
Wed Oct 12 15:08:27 CEST 2011
Terry I would just add that if someone contacts the maintainer and does
not follow the advice of the maintainer, still has problems, and posts a
message to the list, then some time is wasted.
Frank
On 10/12/2011 07:38 AM, Terry Therneau wrote:
> You wrote:
> "It may be best to either write to the package maintainer (me, as you
> did) or post to the group but not both."
>
> This is just a note that I disagree wrt my own packages:
> I go on vacation or trips, or have other projects so won't always
> answer
> Other folks on the list often have good ideas that I'd miss
>
> My preferred standard is "ask the list, with a copy to Therneau as an
> additional courtesy". Of course if it's an out and out bug you've
> found, that no one else but me can deal with, then one can skip the
> list.
>
> Terry T.
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Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University
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