Notices tagged with rstats, page 119

Because it's Friday: Hurricane Trackers https://link.rweekly.org/bon #rstats #datascience

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

It is a mistake to assume that everything is known about even the common approximations used in statistical practice, and this area is still opening up.
-- Bill Venables (in a discussion about how fitted generalized linear mixed models can be compared)
R-help (April 2005) #Rstats

.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

Announcing wrapr 1.6.2 https://link.rweekly.org/boe #rstats #datascience

digest 0.6.17 https://link.rweekly.org/bod #rstats #datascience

Le Monde puzzle [#1066] https://link.rweekly.org/boc #rstats #datascience

If not Notebooks, then what? Look to Literate Programming https://link.rweekly.org/bo9 #rstats #datascience

GDP Data via API https://link.rweekly.org/bo8 #rstats #datascience

The Evolution of Data Literacy at the U.S. Department of Energy + Finding Power Grid Cyber Attacks in a Data Haystack https://link.rweekly.org/bo7 #rstats #datascience

Getting started with deep learning in R https://link.rweekly.org/bo3 #rstats #datascience

Practical Data Science with R2 https://link.rweekly.org/bo2 #rstats #datascience

Running as administrator is like heroin... any problems it solves it replaces with worse problems.
-- Jeff Newmiller (about running R CMD check as administrator)
R-help (February 2013) #Rstats

Kenn Konstabel: [...] There's more to this trend: SPSS and Statistica now advertise "R language support": [...]
Charles C. Berry: If you can't beat R, join R.
Marc Schwartz: "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated."
-- Kenn Konstabel, Charles C. Berry, and Marc Schwartz (about the RPro release from REvolution)
R-help (August 2008) #Rstats

Video: R and Python in in Azure HDInsight https://link.rweekly.org/bnv #rstats #datascience

So, with the item in the original query:

if (x<-3) do_something;

if they wrote it as

if (x<(-3)) do_something;

there would be no problem (and no doubt about what went with what). Of course in complicated expressions this could induce an episode of ocular lispopia, but apart from that it's safe!
-- Ted Harding (about potential confusion between assignment and comparisons with negative numbers)
R-devel (August 2010) #Rstats

Don't do as I say, do as Hadley does.
-- Barry Rowlingson (in a discussion about the workflow for writing R packages, see also fortune(128))
R-devel (September 2011) #Rstats

What have these birds been studied for? Querying science outputs with R https://link.rweekly.org/bnr #rstats #datascience

AsioHeaders 1.12.1-1 https://link.rweekly.org/bnq #rstats #datascience

riddles on a line [#2] https://link.rweekly.org/bnp #rstats #datascience