<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Gavin Simpson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gavin.simpson@ucl.ac.uk">gavin.simpson@ucl.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 20:24 -0500, Dominick Samperi wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">> > Just to be clear I have never used the package and am not truly<br>
> > commenting on this particular case but only the general ideas in this<br>
> > thread. Also I was not suggesting that the comments in the code were<br>
> > purposefully misleading, only that they might be misleading since they<br>
> > could be interpreted in terms of contribution even though they are<br>
> > stated in terms of lines of code. The author of the phrase may very<br>
> > well have felt that the current team had done a lot of work to add<br>
> > design ideas and develop and promote the software but perhaps the<br>
> > unfortunate way in how it was expressed in that phrase that came out<br>
> > as a seeming comment on the original creator's contribution rather<br>
> > than the intended comment on their own, presumably also significant,<br>
> > contribution.<br>
> ><br>
><br>
> There is no reason given why this<br>
> should happen now, at this moment, and no explanation why<br>
> the same standard should not be applied to other package authors,<br>
> including other authors of Rcpp.<br>
<br>
</div>Dominick,<br>
<br>
You feel you are the aggrieved party so of course you will find<br>
conspiracy in the timing. An equally plausible explanation is that the<br>
current set of developers on Rcpp intended to alter the "contributions",<br>
to better reflect the current state of the package, some time ago but it<br>
slipped through the cracks.<br></blockquote><div><br>While we are in the housecleaning mood, perhaps the "contributions"<br>can be reflected even better by removing all references to my name<br>as I have suggested.<br>
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<br>
You are predisposed to see the bad where non may exist. But also, you<br>
should be discussing this in private with the package developers.<br>
<br>
There is nothing in this thread of relevance to R-devel (other than to<br>
publicly refute your claims so as to balance the record should someone<br>
come across this in the archives) as this has nothing to do with<br>
developing R. There is no-one here who can speak for the "R Community",<br>
because such a thing is not a concrete entity - you will just get the<br>
opinions of individuals. It is to the credit of this list (R-Devel) that<br>
this has not descended into a vitriolic stream of claim and counter<br>
claim.<br>
<br>
As for your claims about R Core, Doug has succinctly and clearly<br>
addressed your claims in that regard, regardless what you may personally<br>
believe. Rcpp is *not* an official product of the R Foundation, and<br>
neither is it part of the R distribution.<br>
<br>
Can we please take this elsewhere?<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
Gavin.<br>
</font><div class="im"><br>
> This is not about this particular case, it is about "general ideas"<br>
> along the lines of your original post.<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Dominick<br>
><br>
><br>
> ><br>
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> ><br>
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