[R] How to comment in R

[Berwin A Turlach]

G'day Wacek,

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:02:21 +0100
Wacek Kusnierczyk <Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk at idi.ntnu.no> wrote:

> Gavin Simpson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 20:22 +0100, Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote:
> >   
> >> Greg Snow wrote:
> >>     
> >>> If it is fairly trivial to implement then go ahead and implement
> >>> it, patches are always welcome.  
> >>
> >> now that's *not* true.  not so long ago i submitted a patch
> >> improving on Prof Brian Ripley's ad hoc fix to grep, and it was
> >> silently ignored. 

How do you know that this is not true?  R core members have repeatedly
stated that patches are always welcome, they have never said that
all patches will be applied.  A patch being silently ignored does not,
in my book, imply that the patch is not welcome. :)

> > I recall your posting with patches, but I don't recall whether these
> > were done via the bug repository. If they weren't, 
> 
> they weren't.  originally, i answered Prof Brian Ripley's post
> announcing the fix (which was sent to r help), and since it was
> ignored, i resent the fix to r-devel.  

Are you talking about the patch in:
	http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e6/devel/09/01/0201.html
?

That one does not look like a patch against the svn sources; see
	http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=misc:rpatch
about how to submit patches.

HTH.

Cheers,

	Berwin

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