[R-sig-eco] Copyright Heat Map for species - code from Numerical Ecology with R

[Sarah Goslee]

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On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Charles Novaes de Santana
<charles.santana at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear François,
>
> Sorry if this message seems to be disrespectful. But it would be unfair if I
> let you do what you are doing to these two researchers without saying
> anything.
>
> Did you really need to send an email to Springer "ethics.reporting"? And did
> you really need to answer their question so lordly? You look like a kid that
> cries for "Mom"! As a Professor, you are supposed to teach and to encourage
> everyone to make the right thing. You are not supposed to "punish" anybody!
>
> We are members of a discussion list with the mission of sharing knowledge.
> The mission of helping people with their questions and to make science
> evolve with new and motivated scientists! More than that: It is a list about
> R, that is a free software, which major principle is "Free Knowledge".
> Further, isn't "share the knowledge" one of the missions of a Professor,
> too? Your EGO can not be higher than all of these!
>
> Just to finish: It looks like you have never downloaded any paper, software
> or document from internet without the allowance of the "right owners".
> Everybody knows it is not true! Look at your own message, as Jean smartly
> suggested!
>
> If we can not share knowledge in this list, I think it is time to go away!
> So, good bye, enjoy the knowledge you think is yours!
>
> Charles
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:16 PM, François Gillet
> <francois.gillet at univ-fcomte.fr> wrote:
>>
>> Valerie and Sarah,
>>
>> Thank you for encouraging piracy by posting the URL of an illegal PDF of
>> our book :-(
>>
>> By the way, just look at ?vegemite and you'll find easily the solution to
>> your problem: with the argument scale="log" your numeric data will be
>> converted to 1-char symbols.
>>
>> François
>>