On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 13:54 +0200, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Gavin Simpson wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 07:16 -0700, Red Roo wrote: > .... > >> primes() and primlist are broken in Schoolmath pkg on CRAN. > >> My analysis can be found here http://j.mp/9BNI9q > >> Not sure what the procedure is for getting things fixed, so I've > >> cross-posted to r-dev as well. > > > > Neither place is correct. This has *nothing* to do with R. Address bug > > reports directly to the package maintainer, details of which can be > > found here: > > > > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/schoolmath/index.html > > > > which is what is requested in the posting guide... > > Hmm, well... yes, but: > > It could be argued that we are a little too closed to discussing items > outside of base R. There is something to be said for allowing people to > point out to us that we do have a package on CRAN that claims that 133 > is a prime! Of course it might be considered more polite first to tell > the package maintainder that he has egg on his face... > > -pd
Hi Peter, I agree with what you say; on the main R-Help list people are free to answer/ignore questions on contributed packages as they wish so there shouldn't be discouragement of such communications. There was an interesting discussion on R-Help or R-Devel (I forget which) recently where a question was asked about when it was appropriate to send a public email to R-Help/R-Devel notifying the community of problems with a package on CRAN that had gone unacknowledged despite the OP having contacted the package maintainers. That post solicited several interesting and consider replies, and I too would like to be made aware if a package was providing incorrect/erroneous results. As you say, it is good form to give the maintainer an opportunity to fix the problem and/or respond. However, the tone of Neil Gunther's analysis left a sour taste in the mouth and didn't indicate the maintainer had been contacted to correct the problems. G -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
