Hi, I just joined the list and wanted to introduce myself. I am a professor of operations management at a Canadian University and an empirical researcher (using mainly archival data from finance and accounting primarily with econometric methods). I have finally made the leap to remove all of SAS from my machines (damn license code nonsense was killing me) and decided to adopt R. So I am very new to the R system and still just getting up to speed (reading the fine *long* manuals and etc).
I am also an old programmer (read that late 1970s, early 1980s timeframe) and more recently I have been an open source volunteer for OpenOffice.org (ran their lingucomponent project until last year), a volunteer for the Blackdown Java project (helped do the initial port of Java 1.1.1 to PowerPC Linux) and I have submitted bug fixes and patches to the Linux kernel, glibc, gcc, and the like, mainly to support PPC Linux. I now primarily use x86_64 Linux and MacOSX. I can program in C, C++, Fortran and a number of other languages. So once I get up to speed, I would love to volunteer to help pay back for the really nice system you have made available. I found this mailing list by accident looking for something to tell me about the NULL environment issue that hit me when I moved from version 2.2.1 to version 2.3.0. If there is a developers page that lists cvs checkout info (or do you use subversion or some other system) and the details of who to submit all patches and things to (is this list for diffs?), I would love to be pointed at it. I am on too many mailing lists right now, so I signed up for digest mode. So if anyone wants/needs an immediate response please simply cc me. Thanks, Kevin Hendricks Professor of Operations Management and Information Technology Richard Ivey School of Business University of Western Ontario London, ON [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
