Notices tagged with rstats, page 10

Some people familiar with R describe it as a supercharged version of Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet software.
-- Ashlee Vance (in his article "Data Analysts Captivated by R's Power")
The New York Times (January 2009) #Rstats

Release 1.0.0
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Wow! Thank you! [...] If I am allowed to ask just one question today: How do you fit 48 hours of coding in an ordinary day? Any hints will be appreciated ... :-)
-- Detlef Steuer (on 2000-02-29)
R-help (February 2000) #Rstats

Sooner or later most R beginners are bitten by this all too convenient shortcut. As an R newbie, think of R as your bank account: overuse of $-extraction can lead to undesirable consequences. It's best to acquire the '[[' and '[' habit early.
-- Peter Ehlers (about the use of $-extraction)
R-help (March 2013) #Rstats

You can be maximally lazy, but still be efficient.
-- Kevin Murphy (describing the implementation of an algorithm)
gR 2003, Aalborg (September 2003) #Rstats

Joshua Wiley: ... the advantages of formal classes seem worth at least not entirely dismissing.
Jim Lemon: Hmmm, yeah, that's about the grammatical equivalent of S4 classes.
-- Joshua Wiley and Jim Lemon (in a discussion about the relative advantages of S3 and S4 classes)
R-help (May 2011) #Rstats

See pages 45 and 46 of V&R's S PROGRAMMING for a definitive discussion of how to do this.
(Confession: I treat anything that V&R say as definitive).
-- Berton Gunter (in reply to the question how to parse a '...' function argument)
R-help (June 2005) #Rstats

I strongly suggest you collaborate with a local statistician. I can think of no circumstance where multiple regression on "hundreds of thousands of variables" is anything more than a fancy random number generator.
-- Berton Gunter
R-help (February 2008) #Rstats

Lars Strand: Will R run under Windows Pocket PC?
Brian D. Ripley: We don't know! There are no binary versions of R for that platform, but perhaps you could find a suitable compiler and manage to build the sources.
Outside pure mathematics it is usually very hard to establish that something cannot be done (and it can be very hard in pure mathematics, too).
-- Lars Strand and Brian D. Ripley
R-help (November 2004) #Rstats

Duncan Murdoch: Others need to run under ESS.
Francois Pinard: While this is a good things for Emacs lovers, the requirement is rather unwelcome for pagans! :-)
-- Duncan Murdoch and Francois Pinard (on the availability of command completion)
R-help (May 2006) #Rstats

If you don't go with R now, you will someday.
-- David Kane (on whether to use R or S-PLUS)
R-SIG-Finance (November 2004) #Rstats

Bad English is the language of science.
-- Jan de Leeuw
JSS mailing list (February 2005) #Rstats

R is a complex program. If you can't work out how to find the documentation, I doubt you will be able to use R.
-- David Kirby (in response to a vague question on where to find documentation for R)
R-help (February 2010) #Rstats

As for the question of the bug in `is', ... it depends what your definition of `is' is.
-- Douglas Bates (referring to Bill Clinton after a tortuous discussion of the behavior of is(7, "integer"))
R-help (September 2008) #Rstats

datayoda: Bing is my friend...I found the cumsum() function.
Dirk Eddelbuettel: If bing is your friend, then rseek.org is bound to be your uncle.
-- datayoda and Dirk Eddelbuettel (after searching for a function that computes cumulative sums)
stackoverflow.com (October 2010) #Rstats

Have you ever wanted to write a book, but not known where to start? Now is a very good time to jump in, because there is currently a very simple recipe for success: just put R in the title and you will have to beat the publishers off with a stick!
-- Paul Murrell
ASA Statistical Computing & Graphics Newsletter 17(2) (November 2006) #Rstats

Vaishali Sadaphal: I need to give my R code to my client to use. I would like to protect the logic/algorithms that have been coded in R. This means that I would not like anyone to be able to read the code.
Duncan Murdoch: R is an open source project, so providing ways for you to do this is not one of our goals. [...] If you think your client will steal from you, then you should find another client.
-- Vaishali Sadaphal and Duncan Murdoch
R-help (July 2011) #Rstats

The computational ease with which an abundance of parameters can be estimated should not be allowed to obscure the probable unwisdom of such estimation from limited data.
-- Arthur P. Dempster
in "Covariance selection", Biometrics 28 (1), 157-175 (March 1972) #Rstats

If anything, there should be a Law: Thou Shalt Not Even Think Of Producing A Graph That Looks Like Anything From A Spreadsheet.
-- Ted Harding (in a discussion about producing graphics)
R-help (August 2007) #Rstats

On average, any data manipulation that can be described in a sentence or two of English can be programmed in one line in R. If you find yourself writing a long 'for' loop to do something that sounds simple, take a step back and research if an existing combination of functions can easily handle your request.
-- Erik Iverson
R-help (June 2010) #Rstats

I'm still confused about how to avoid the wrath of the CRAN-devel daemon, whose appetite for new morsels of developer flesh seems ever increasing and makes keeping even a stable package up-to-date a moving target.
-- Michael Friendly (about checking packages for CRAN)
R-devel (September 2013) #Rstats