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
particu
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 themsel
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, 20
