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Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. Pick a username [ ] Email Address [ ] Password [ ] [ ] Sign up for GitHub By clicking "Sign up for GitHub", you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We'll occasionally send you account related emails. Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account Jump to bottom Clippy: really?!? #12 Open msberends opened this issue Dec 7, 2017 * 7 comments Open Clippy: really?!? #12 msberends opened this issue Dec 7, 2017 * 7 comments Comments @msberends Copy link msberends commented Dec 7, 2017 Please, PLEASE remove clippy from the man pages. It's really annoying and improves nothing. Thanks! The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: 6 JVAdams, warnes, jokroese, BirgerNi, JasonAizkalns, and rdocking reacted with thumbs up emoji All reactions * 6 reactions @jeroen Copy link Member jeroen commented Dec 13, 2017 * edited Improving nothing? He is helping, he even says so. clippy 2 KyleHaynes and austensen reacted with thumbs up emoji 4 msberends, gksmyth, JVAdams, and ohjakobsen reacted with thumbs down emoji 4 maelle, omarbenites, kendonB, and Yue-Jiang reacted with laugh emoji [?] 6 maelle, christophsax, krlmlr, ndrewwm, kendonB, and zx8754 reacted with heart emoji All reactions * 2 reactions * 4 reactions * 4 reactions * [?] 6 reactions Sorry, something went wrong. @msberends Copy link Author msberends commented Dec 13, 2017 Right. But there're dozens of other R users using your package and they are (for a reason) used to how R works and how the help pages of packages work. I've never seen anything like this before. It's a funny feature, but I really think you should comply to the developer guidelines in the CRAN developers policy. It's now impossible to read the text underneath Clippy, so you first need to move your pointer. Quite annoying to say the least, I would say. If Clippy is needed, you didn't write the manual very well I'm afraid... 1 KyleHaynes reacted with thumbs down emoji All reactions * 1 reaction Sorry, something went wrong. @msberends Copy link Author msberends commented Dec 13, 2017 I see that you're already on CRAN, so I think they have missed it Maybe did the review in a base R and not RStudio for example. All reactions Sorry, something went wrong. @gksmyth Copy link gksmyth commented May 15, 2018 * edited Jereon, thanks for creating the writexl package but, honestly, Clippy seems a silly indulgence. Clippy was annoying when Microsoft introduced it >20 years ago, and it's still annoying now. As Wikipedia says, "The program was widely reviled among users as intrusive and annoying, and was criticized even within Microsoft." It was considered too intrusive even by Microsoft's standards and was dropped pretty quickly. I guess you already know all the above, and the insertion of clippy into an R help file is just to be funny / show off / demonstrate it can be done. It is at users' expense however, so it seems a strange priority. Is writexl not intended for serious use? 5 msberends, warnes, ohjakobsen, guihigashi, and BirgerNi reacted with thumbs up emoji 1 msberends reacted with hooray emoji All reactions * 5 reactions * 1 reaction Sorry, something went wrong. @EarlGlynn Copy link EarlGlynn commented Jun 8, 2018 I nearly freaked out when I saw clippy -- deja vu Office 97. It is annoying, but I just wanted to make sure it wasn't some sort of malware in RStudio. But seriously, thanks for writexl. I normally would save to CSV files, instead of Excel, but the default flaw in Excel is to read ICD 9 codes such as 12, 12.0 and 12.00 in a CSV as the same thing. Writing them into Excel maintains correctness of the codes as strings. All reactions Sorry, something went wrong. @warnes Copy link warnes commented Sep 24, 2018 Clippy is annoying, and I just wasted 30 minutes looking for a way to turn this off through MS-Windows configuration because I assumed that MS-Windows was the source of this. Please turn it off. As a side note, using the Clippy image in this way is likely to be a trademark violation, and may land you in legal trouble if Microsoft becomes aware of it. All reactions Sorry, something went wrong. @msberends Copy link Author msberends commented Feb 7, 2019 * edited Today I got to read the help page again and I am done with this nonsense. I've sent an email to Dr Uwe Ligges, CRAN package maintainer and statistician at the Dortmund University. I really hope they reconsider the availability of this package on CRAN and force you to upload it again without Clippy. Please think primarily about users and not about yourself. As you can read above, people think it is malware or a Microsoft glitch. It's childish to keep it, and I can only hope Ligges thinks so too. I'm sorry, I'm not easily frustrated. But this how-low-can-you-go contest is over for me. All reactions Sorry, something went wrong. @ropensci ropensci locked as too heated and limited conversation to collaborators Feb 8, 2019 Sign up for free to subscribe to this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in. Assignees No one assigned Labels None yet Projects None yet Milestone No milestone Development No branches or pull requests 5 participants @jeroen @EarlGlynn @warnes @gksmyth @msberends Footer (c) 2023 GitHub, Inc. Footer navigation * Terms * Privacy * Security * Status * Docs * Contact GitHub * Pricing * API * Training * Blog * About You can't perform that action at this time.