[R] protentially serious R error

[Ted Harding]

That applies to the OP (Xiaofeng, aka "liuxf"), of course.
Ben himself is a guardian of all Circles (loc.cit.).

With regard to Ben's quote from the Posting Guide, it occurs
to me that the more years one has been using R, the more
rapdily one should (or should be able to) answer a question.
The implication of the Posting Guide is that the time it should
take one to respond to a question is inversely proportional
to one's experience of using R. This is turn could imply that
some users, with the longest experience, may never respond
(since, by the time their response is due, adequate responses
have probably already been furnished by others, somewhat less
experienced). There may be some empirical evidence for this. :)

Best wishes to all,
Ted.

On 01-Dec-2012 17:54:50 David L Carlson wrote:
> Congratulations, you've reached the First Circle of the R Inferno.
> Only 8 more to go
> 
> http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf
> 
> ----------------------------------------------
> David L Carlson
> Associate Professor of Anthropology
> Texas A&M University
> College Station, TX 77843-4352
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
>> project.org] On Behalf Of Ben Bolker
>> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 7:19 PM
>> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Subject: Re: [R] protentially serious R error
>> 
>> Cutting and pasting from the R posting guide -- I think this advice
>> has special force when responding to FAQ 7.31 questions (I've seen
>> several within the last few days, and at least two were answered by
>> three different people:
>> 
>> When responding to a very simple question, use the following algorithm:
>> 
>>     compose your response
>>     type 4*runif(1) at the R prompt, and wait this many hours
>>     check for new posts to R-help; if no similar suggestion, post your
>> response
>> 
>> (This is partly in jest, but if you know immediately why it is
>> suggested, you
>> probably should use it! Also, it's a nice idea to replace 4 by the
>> number of
>> years you have been using R or S-plus.)
>> 
>> ______________________________________________
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>> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-
>> guide.html
>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> 
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Date: 01-Dec-2012  Time: 19:30:19
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