Notices tagged with rstats
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Giorgio Comai (g)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2020 21:10:09 CEST Giorgio Comai Nice to have been a little part of the dynamics that make free software great. I had an issue with symbols in graphs in R with Fedora, asked a question on SO, thanks to the input received there opened an issue on Fedora's bugzilla, somebody mentioned it in the R mailing list, and it turned out this is an upstream issue in R itself, so they opened a bug in R core, and an upstream fix has already been proposed (tests still pending). I wasted a few hours troubleshooting, but loving the outcome. Bonus: this will fix a related issue that bugged all those who had installed Wine on Linux. References here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/60937379/4124601 #rstats -
Giorgio Comai (g)'s status on Saturday, 14-Mar-2020 16:36:58 CET Giorgio Comai just offered my first bounty for a question on SO... too niche, I'm afraid, to gather attention otherwise, but still a pain https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60656445/how-to-fix-degree-symbol-not-showing-correctly-in-maps-made-with-ggplot2-geom-sf #rstats -
Giorgio Comai (g)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2020 23:34:26 CET Giorgio Comai I'm reading through some of the documents of what it implies to be a "Public Benefit Corporation" in the U.S.
Overall, I think it creates a good deal of positive incentives to improve on many fronts.
It probably reinforces rather than change the nature of a company, but it's probably all for the better
https://rstudio.com/about/pbc-report/ #rstats -
Giorgio Comai (g)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2019 13:40:00 CET Giorgio Comai An odd combination of "me journalism" and technical tutorial. My latest for the European Data Journalism Network. May be of interest to the #OpenStreetMap crowd. I used #OSRM and #rstats.
https://medium.com/european-data-journalism-network/how-to-feel-lucky-on-a-monday-morning-b73f4235320d
"How to feel lucky on a Monday morning: calculating the travel distance between places and each point of the European population grid" -
RFortunes (rfortunes)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2019 16:00:02 CEST RFortunes Mingzhai Sun: When you use it [R], since it is written by so many authors, how do you know that the results are trustable?
Bill Venables: The R engine [...] is pretty well uniformly excellent code but you have to take my word for that. Actually, you don't. The whole engine is open source so, if you wish, you can check every line of it. If people were out to push dodgy software, this is not the way they'd go about it.
-- Mingzhai Sun and Bill Venables
R-help (January 2004) #Rstats -
RFortunes (rfortunes)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2019 10:00:02 CEST RFortunes You should try things; R won't break.
-- Duncan Murdoch (encouraging a user to explore R's graphical capabilities)
R-help (May 2016) #Rstats -
RFortunes (rfortunes)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2019 16:00:02 CEST RFortunes Firstly, don't call your matrix 'matrix'. Would you call your dog 'dog'? Anyway, it might clash with the function 'matrix'.
-- Barry Rowlingson
R-help (October 2004) #Rstats -
RFortunes (rfortunes)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2019 10:00:02 CEST RFortunes I used a heuristic... pulled from my posterior. That makes it Bayesian, right?
-- JD Long (in a not too serious chat about modeling strategies)
Stackoverflow (November 2010) #Rstats -
RFortunes (rfortunes)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2019 16:00:02 CEST RFortunes .RData files (the ones with nothing before the period) are just traps for your future self, with no documentation. I avoid them like the plague.
-- Jeff Newmiller (in a discussion on whether to store certain defaults in .Rprofile or .RData files)
R-help (March 2015) #Rstats -
RFortunes (rfortunes)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2019 10:00:02 CEST RFortunes Ole F. Christensen: Brain, Thank you very much for your help.
Peter Dalgaard: You seem to be using call-by-value semantics rather than call-by-name...
-- Ole F. Christensen and Peter Dalgaard (thanking *Brian* D. Ripley for help)
R-devel (January 2006) #Rstats -
RFortunes (rfortunes)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2019 16:00:02 CEST RFortunes I think [R] addresses a niche market for high-end data analysts that want free, readily available code. [...] We have customers who build engines for aircraft. I am happy they are not using freeware when I get on a jet.
-- Anne H. Milley (director of technology product marketing at SAS, quoted in Ashlee Vance's article "Data Analysts Captivated by R's Power")
The New York Times (January 2009) #Rstats -
RFortunes (rfortunes)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2019 10:00:02 CEST RFortunes Is this English or American (you know, the language referred to in the USA as 'English')? [...] As an English English speaker, my sense and my employer's dictionary both suggest doubling here.
-- Brian D. Ripley (in a discussion whether it is 'subsetable' or 'subsettable')
R-devel (February 2004) #Rstats -
RFortunes (rfortunes)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2019 16:00:02 CEST RFortunes Can one be a good data analyst without being a half-good programmer? The short answer to that is, 'No.' The long answer to that is, 'No.'
-- Frank Harrell
1999 S-PLUS User Conference, New Orleans (October 1999) #Rstats -
RFortunes (rfortunes)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2019 10:00:02 CEST RFortunes I see three drivers of problems with R.
The first is that R is useful. [...]
The second driver of problems with R is that it is both a programming language and an interactive language. There is a tension there that is unavoidable. [...]
The third big driver of problems is that R is not software, it is a community.
-- Patrick Burns (Inferno-ish R)
CambR User Group Meeting, Cambridge (May 2012) #Rstats -
RFortunes (rfortunes)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2019 16:00:02 CEST RFortunes Well, 'do as we say, not do as we do' applies, I think.
-- Brian D. Ripley (answering a report on a small inconsistency in 'Writing R Extensions' by David Firth)
R-devel (June 2005) #Rstats -
RFortunes (rfortunes)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2019 10:00:02 CEST RFortunes Perhaps one is the real forge and the other is a forgery? Or a forge-R-y? I'll get my coat...
-- Barry Rowlingson (on the question whether http://www.RForge.net/ or http://R-Forge.R-project.org/ is the official forge server)
R-help (April 2007) #Rstats -
RFortunes (rfortunes)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2019 16:00:02 CEST RFortunes You can be maximally lazy, but still be efficient.
-- Kevin Murphy (describing the implementation of an algorithm)
gR 2003, Aalborg (September 2003) #Rstats -
RFortunes (rfortunes)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2019 10:00:03 CEST RFortunes Anand Patil: Can this be fixed without requiring the user to do anything?
Brian D. Ripley: The fix requires 'the user' to read the documentation.
-- Anand Patil and Brian D. Ripley (about some compiler problems under Windows Vista)
R-help (September 2007) #Rstats -
RFortunes (rfortunes)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2019 16:00:02 CEST RFortunes There seem to be three canons: R-Forge, Rforge, and for the Followers of Wickham, github. Four, if you count OmegaHat.
-- David Winsemius (in a discussion about the 'canonical' source code management platform for R)
R-help (February 2012) #Rstats -
RFortunes (rfortunes)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2019 10:00:02 CEST RFortunes Sorting is a wonderful topic! Especially because you can discuss different fundamental ideas like brute force, divide and conquer, and questions of efficiency, tradeoffs of space and time, etc.
-- Peter Wolf
R-help (April 2004) #Rstats