[R] typo in contrast package's vignettes

Peng Yu pengyu.ut at gmail.com
Wed Feb 3 15:28:41 CET 2010


On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:22 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On Feb 3, 2010, at 12:20 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:14 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Feb 3, 2010, at 12:11 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:04 PM, David Winsemius
>>>> <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Feb 2, 2010, at 11:42 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems that Eq (2) in the vignettes for the 'contrast' packages is
>>>>>> not correct. That is, the numerator on the right hand side should be
>>>>>> $c' \beta$ rather than $c' \lambda$, right? If I'm correct, could
>>>>>> somebody notice the author to fix it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Do it yourself.
>>>>
>>>> What do you mean? I have two questions. I assume you are answering my
>>>> second questions. Would you please make sure that your reply is
>>>> complete to avoid any confusions?
>>>
>>> If you think there is an error, then you should contact the package
>>> maintainer. Simple (and complete) as that.
>>
>> If you don't want to check, then don't post with nonsense reply.
>
> Its the advice that you could and _should_ have read in the Posting Guide.

I'm not clear how my original post violate the posting guide
http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html. Would you please be
specific which item I violated?



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