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Roger D. Peng: I don't think anyone actually believes that R is designed to make
*everyone* happy. For me, R does about 99% of the things I need to do, but
sadly, when I need to order a pizza, I still have to pick up the
telephone.
Douglas Bates: There are several chains of pizzerias in the U.S.
that provide for Internet-based ordering (e.g. www.papajohnsonline.com) so, with
the Internet modules in R, it's only a matter of time before you will have a
pizza-ordering function available.
Brian D. Ripley: Indeed, the GraphApp
toolkit (used for the RGui interface under R for Windows, but Guido forgot to
include it) provides one (for use in Sydney, Australia, we presume as that is
where the GraphApp author hails from). Alternatively, a Padovian has no need of
ordering pizzas with both home and neighbourhood restaurants ....

Roger D. Peng, Douglas Bates, and Brian D. Ripley
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June 2004