Thank you, Brodie. I can do without the 1992 level of Useness sarcasm when reaching out for answers. I consulted the documentation, and they give a very specific example. I consulted the tutorial, and it gives a very specific example. Neither were suited to identifying answers to my own particular questions. At least going forward, I will know who to look to for useful information and helpful guidance, and likely will suggest documentation changes as I go. And you are correct, I was not at all pleased to see this harsh level of reaction; some people perhaps feel the only power they have in their lives is to assert some supposed level of superiority rather than seeking to understand and be helpful.
Mike On September 7, 2020 at 8:18:30 AM, brodie gaslam via R-SIG-Mac ( r-sig-mac@r-project.org) wrote: 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 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
