From hadley at rice.edu  Sun Aug 22 02:59:30 2010
From: hadley at rice.edu (Hadley Wickham)
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:59:30 -0500
Subject: [Rd] No RTFM?
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> Regarding length, the portion at the end of every r-help message (but
> this does not appear at the end of r-devel messages or the messages
> of other lists concerning R):
>
> ? "provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code."
>
> It was intended to provide a one line synopsis of the key part of the posting
> guide that could be readily pointed to. ?Although we have to be careful about
> making that too verbose, as well, it might not be too onerous to add

But no one reads email footers...

Hadley

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[Rd] No RTFM?
Hadley Wickham