[R-SIG-Mac] Wiki or Development for Mac-R.app-graphics-insert-to-Word?

[Mick McQuaid]

I'm disappointed by the short-sightedness of this message.

... regarding a message from Richard De Veaux on Jan 29:
> I don't think this forum is the appropriate place for personal harangues
> against Word. There are enough other R issues to keep us busy.

Word is the software equivalent of Caulerpa taxifolia, the
green alga that tries to make its environment as
inhospitable to other living organisms as it can.

If you just sit there and do nothing, it will eventually
stifle anything that threatens it, and this includes
any software of any type that is platform-neutral.
Platform neutrality threatens the monopoly.

In other words, I am saying that Word is dangerous to R.

I don't expect casual MS Office users in general to
understand this, but it really surprises me to see a lack of
resistance to MS Office in a group like this.

... regarding a message from Richard De Veaux on Jan 29:
> I don't think this forum is the appropriate place for personal harangues
> against Word. There are enough other R issues to keep us busy.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dick De Veaux
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/29/07 2:25 PM, "Federico Calboli" <f.calboli at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On 29 Jan 2007, at 19:07, Ben Bolker wrote:
> > 
> >>   Have you ever tried to submit a LaTeX document (or any non-Word
> >> format: PDF, DVI, RTF, ...) to a biological
> >> journal?
> > 
> > Just refuse to referee anything sent to you, and to fill in any form
> > as a referee, if they are in .doc. Point out they are *not* a
> > standard. Ask colleagues to do the same.
> > 
> > People do respond to incentives.
> > 
> > Best,
> > 
> > Federico
> > 
> > --
> > Federico C. F. Calboli
> > Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
> > Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus
> > Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG
> > 
> > Tel +44 (0)20 75941602   Fax +44 (0)20 75943193
> > 
> > f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk
> > f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.com
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > R-SIG-Mac mailing list
> > R-SIG-Mac at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
> 
> _______________________________________________
> R-SIG-Mac mailing list
> R-SIG-Mac at stat.math.ethz.ch
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
> 
> 

-- 
Michael McQuaid, Assistant Professor
School of Information, School of Art & Design
University of Michigan
305B West Hall, 1085 South University Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107
734-647-9550 voice  734-764-2475 fax
mcq at umich.edu       http://mickmcquaid.com