Notices tagged with rstats, page 12

What sort of editor would overlook this clear and demonstrable message leaping out from the data in favour of some arcane argument about "types of sums of squares"? Several answers come to mind: A power freak, a SAS afficianado, an idiot.
-- Bill Venables
R-help (July 2007) #Rstats

It is becoming apparent that you do not know how to use the results from either system. The progress of science would be safer if you get some advice from a person that knows what they are doing.
-- David Winsemius (in response to a user that obtained different linear regression results in R and SPSS and wanted to know which one to use)
R-help (July 2011) #Rstats

Weird. Over at ESS they discuss how to debug with %>% when I always thought that having %>% was the bug.
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel (about an ESS issue ticket discussion concerning debugging when %>% is used)
R chatroom on stackoverflow.com (April 2016) #Rstats

I think the rule is that you can do anything as long as you don't complain. If you want to complain, you must follow the instructions.
-- Jari Oksanen (about not following the instructions when compiling R-devel)
R-devel (February 2013) #Rstats

What we have is nice, but we need something very different.
-- Robert Gentleman
Statistical Computing 2003, Reisensburg (June 2003) #Rstats

Knut Krueger: Is there any function available to combine those p values?
Stephan Kolassa: ?"+"
-- Knut Krueger and Stephan Kolassa (about ways to combine p values from different tests)
R-help (July 2010) #Rstats

Michael Watson: Hopefully this one isn't in the manual or I am about to get shot :-S
Peter Dalgaard: *Kapow*...
-- Michael Watson and Peter Dalgaard (question on axis())
R-help (February 2006) #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

There are companies whose yearly license fees to SAS total millions of dollars. Then those companies hire armies of SAS programmers to program an archaic macro language using old statistical methods to produce ugly tables and the worst graphics in the statistical software world.
-- Frank Harrell
R-help (November 2004) #Rstats

Cross posting is sociopathic.
-- Roger Koenker
R-help (November 2008) #Rstats

I think the rule is that you can do anything as long as you don't complain. If you want to complain, you must follow the instructions.
-- Jari Oksanen (about not following the instructions when compiling R-devel)
R-devel (February 2013) #Rstats

Rene M. Raupp: Does anybody know any work comparing R with other (charged) statistical software (like Minitab, SPSS, SAS)? [...] I have to show it's as good as the others.
Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen: Sorry. That will be difficult. Couldn't it do to prove it is better?
-- Rene M. Raupp and Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen
R-help (May 2005) #Rstats

If you think you can learn all of R, you are wrong. For the foreseeable future you will not even be able to keep up with the new additions.
-- Patrick Burns (Inferno-ish R)
CambR User Group Meeting, Cambridge (May 2012) #Rstats

It's interesting that SAS Institute feels that non-peer-reviewed software with hidden implementations of analytic methods that cannot be reproduced by others should be trusted when building aircraft engines.
-- Frank Harrell (in response to the statement of the SAS director of technology product marketing: "We have customers who build engines for aircraft. I am happy they are not using freeware when I get on a jet.")
R-help (January 2009) #Rstats

/* some real insanity to keep Duncan sane */
-- Luke Tierney
in src/main/context.c (June 2001) #Rstats

I think that it's generally a good idea not to resist the most natural way of programming in R.
-- John Fox
R-help (March 2004) #Rstats

Perhaps same thing that will happen when those monks finish the Towers of Hanoi?
2 * 3^198
[1] 5.902533e+94
-- David Winsemius (in reponse to a question about expand.grid(x1=1, x2=1:2, x3=1:3, x4=1:3, x5=1:3, ..., x200=1:3))
R-help (January 2012) #Rstats

Rickyfox: Dang it how could I have missed this? Thx for the answer, I feel incredibly stupid now.
Juba: Never underestimate the power of R to make you feel stupid.
-- Rickyfox and Juba (in an exchange over how ifelse() works)
stackoverflow.com (March 2013) #Rstats

To paraphrase provocatively, 'machine learning is statistics minus any checking of models and assumptions'.
-- Brian D. Ripley (about the difference between machine learning and statistics)
useR! 2004, Vienna (May 2004) #Rstats

Also, that's what Martin Maechler told me and he wrote the code so I trust him on that. I figure that if you have to trust someone to be meticulous and precise then a German-speaking Swiss is a good choice.
-- Douglas Bates
R-help (January 2005) #Rstats