My view on these things is to either not respond, or try to increase the level of understanding so that future questions may be better. I don't think you meant it that way, but I can't imagine anyone seeing this as the aftermath of asking a question is going to feel particularly good about themselves.
We can always gently direct people back to SO if we do not wish to answer newbie questions. >On Monday, September 7, 2020, 6:57:55 AM EDT, Carl Witthoft ><c...@witthoft.com> wrote: > >For those who haven't checked in a while, the sad state of affairs over >at StackOverflow.com is that 99% of the R-tagged questions there are at >this level of [non]understanding. We should consider ourselves very >lucky that r-sig-mac remains almost entirely devoid of such stuff. > >>> On Sep 6, 2020, at 4:31 PM, Mike Feher <mfeher1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Greetings, >>> >>> As I’m getting familiar with R, I have some basic questions that I thought >>> of to shoot to useRs: >[snip] > >-- >Carl Witthoft >c...@witthoft.com >resume: https://app.box.com/file/498153801347 > >_______________________________________________ >R-SIG-Mac mailing list >R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
