[GenABEL-dev] export.plink bug: should we change the default?

[Yurii Aulchenko]

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Maria G <mgmaria at yandex.ru> wrote:

>  Hi Yurii
>
> 03.04.2013, 14:19, "Yurii Aulchenko" <yurii.aulchenko at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi Maria,
>
> if my understanding is correct, the fix is now only in the devel-version
> on SVN - so you would need to export and build package if you really want
> it (see
> http://genabel.r-forge.r-project.org/tutHowToInstallDevelVersion.html).
>
>
>
>
>
> But the 'fix' is very simple (and is not actually fixing anything - just
> trying to avoid confusion!): the default option now is set to
> 'transpose=TRUE'. So you can simply set this up manually when calling
> 'export.plink' :)
>
>
> yes, sure :)
> I was just also thinking about other users - How would you let everybody
> now about the simple way to 'fix'?
>
>

Good question. I am not sure this particular fix justifies wider
announcement, but in general, there are several ways we inform people about
new things:

If a bug was discussed on forum we probably need to update the topic.

Bigger things are announced as news on www.genabel.org.

We used to also put announcement as a 'sticky topic' on the forum (top
topic - 'GenABEL/ProbABEL announcements') - but I think somehow it is not
quite used.

The last way of cause is if people hang on the devel-list :)

I think everybody would benefit if someone would volunteer to update
news/announcements more systematically (now only bigger things get
occasionally in, when me or Lennart get time to put together a news story).

best wishes,
Yurii
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