You Idiot ...

Since 1995, when I first connected to the internet, I have had web sites, blogs, I post prolifically to quora.com, I give away hundreds of files a year ... someone asks me a question and I do my best to answer it. Unless I think a student has posted his homework question, hoping to get the work done for him, I answer questions honestly and in full. That can take me five minutes or even five hours, sometimes more. That's what I do. Yesterday I posted a question on a discussion list about the ACF and PACF functions in R ... simple for anyone who knows R well but difficult for me I had spent a long time looking at the ACF and PCF help files, I had searched the web for answers, I had watched videos on YouTube. It could be that, in my ignorance, I didn't frame my question so well because the first two answers didn't answer my question. Of course, that can happen but one respondent said to me, before posting questions here, it is best to look at the help files first. I was motivated to solve this problem by myself now and I did! I did it. Blow me, though; but another smart alek posted an "answer" to my question by telling me that there are many tutorials I could search for and read ... and of course he didn't tell me where to find those tutorials or which tutorials I might find and read. I doubt very much I will post another question to that list! DW