Hi Bert: given what Hadley and Rstudio have provided to the R-community,
what's the big deal of
letting people know about a class. It's the ideal place to send the notice.
and yes, as Barry
and John said, every other commercial entity does send to the R-list.


Mark





On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Barry Rowlingson <
b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Bert Gunter <gunter.berton@gene.com>
> wrote:
> > Hadley:
> >
> > I don't think this is appropriate. Think of what it would be like if
> everyone shilled their R training and consulting wares here.
>
> Everyone does, don't they? A search on Nabble shows up regular
> postings from XLSolutions, Mango used to post (not seen anything in a
> while) and Revo sneak the odd commercial in Dave Smith's updates.
>
> I don't see anything about non-commercial postings being banned from
> R-help, but they do seem to be against the spirit of R-help.
>
> I suspect commercials sneak in under under 'announcements' in the
> R-help documentation:
>
> R-help: "The ‘main’ R mailing list, for [...] announcements (not
> covered by ‘R-announce’ or ‘R-packages’, see above)"
>
> As with everything R, if it bothers the maintainers, then they'll put
> a stop to it. We users matter not...
>
> Barry
>
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