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

[stefano iacus]

Please stop this dogmatic war against/in_favor_of Word & Co. or I'm  
forced to close this thread.

No-one obliges anyone to use Word and no product can be dangerous to  
R (by any meaning of the word "dangerous").

If someone wants to write code for some I/O API to allow  
interoperability between R and other products, he/she is welcome.

That being said, I'm not the one.

stefano


On 29/gen/07, at 22:08, Mick McQuaid wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
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