[GRASS-stats] R-sig-Geo nabble forum request

[Roger Bivand]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Bio7 wrote:

>
> It would be nice if a nabble forum would be created for the R-sig-Geo mailing
> list
> which provides many useful information closely related to this forum and in
> addition
> gives a nicer interface for the communication.
>
> Are there any plans to do this.

You can access R lists through gmane and nabble. There are no plans to do 
any more, since none of the people who might answer questions have time to 
handle anything other than email. There are wiki entries on the R and the 
GRASS side, but nobody checks them for accuracy or freshness. They might 
have been OK when posted, but since the software evolves, and there are no 
automatic mechanisms to run code snippets on current releases outside of 
the tests and help-page examples in R packages, all bets are off.

Naturally, no-one can stop forum creation, but it does constitute a 
forking of discussion, where the presumptively useful discussion takes 
place where developer(s) can see it.

Roger

>
> With kind regards
>
> Marcel
>

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Roger Bivand
Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of
Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen,
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