Notices tagged with rstats, page 122

The wiki spamming is a serious problem, [...]. What does a logfile with IPs help? The spammers are strangers selling viagra. I don't want to find them :-)
-- Detlef Steuer (in a discussion on R wikis)
R-help (January 2006) #Rstats

I think processx is my favorite recently updated #rstats 📦 I'm not going to use in the near future anyway: https://www.tidyverse.org/articles/2018/09/processx-3.2.0/

'They' did write documentation that told you that Perl was needed, but 'they' can't read it for you.
-- Brian D. Ripley
R-help (February 2001) #Rstats

Ah, so that's why my report of a bug in the RCheapViagra package didn't get through....
-- Barry Rowlingson (after Peter Dalgaard announced a new spam filter for R-bugs)
R-devel (January 2004) #Rstats

Bandwidth selection is an unresolved (and possibly unsolvable) problem in smoothing, so you're perfectly justified in trying/choosing an arbitrary value if it produces good pictures!
-- Adrian Baddeley (answering a user's question about the choice of smoothing parameter when using the density.ppp() function from the spatstat package)
private communication (March 2013) #Rstats

It is unusual for the actual data not to be available in real problems.
-- Brian D. Ripley (in reply to a question how to fit a distribution if not the data but only their histogram is available)
R-help (June 2006) #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

Usually (but not always) doing tests of normality reflect a lack of understanding of the power of rank tests, and an assumption of high power for the tests (qq plots don't always help with that because of their subjectivity). When possible it's good to choose a robust method. Also, doing pre-testing for normality can affect the type I error of the overall analysis.
-- Frank Harrell
R-help (April 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

Uwe Ligges: I just told nonsense, stepclass() does not make sense with randomForest(), obviously ... (wonder why nobody shouted?).
Douglas Bates: Oh, we're just so used to you talking nonsense that we don't bother to point it out any more :-)
-- Uwe Ligges and Douglas Bates
R-help (July 2005) #Rstats

Sorry, but this is the R-help list. The 'R Spam' list is over at /dev/null.
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel (after a poster misused the mailing list for advertising)
R-help (April 2011) #Rstats

Josh O'Brien: Figuring out what was going on here obsessed me for several days, before I realized "Oh, duh. I should ask this on [Stackoverflow] and get some better minds working on this for me!"
Brandon Bertelsen: I've learned to give up after 30 minutes. It's cheaper to pay people in checkmarks and upvotes :)
-- Josh O'Brien and Brandon Bertelsen (discussing a package's definition of reorder.factor changing results)
Stackoverflow (October 2012) #Rstats

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

Seldom are prizes, credit, and gratitude given, else Brian would be drowning in them.
-- Anthony Rossini (about the merits of implementing software)
R-help (May 2004) #Rstats

[...] (damn... my shift key just broke as well...)
bill venables.
-- Bill Venables (answering a message that lacked upper case letters)
R-help (April 2005) #Rstats

I prefer _Melodramatic Analysis_.
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel (after Barry Rowlingson noticed 'Sentimental Analysis' as a misspelled 'Sentiment Analysis' on datascience.stackexchange.com)
R chatroom on stackoverflow.com (April 2016) #Rstats

There are actual error messages, and until you show them, we can not help as the mind reading machine is currently off for repairs.
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel (after reports about errors with R CMD check)
R-help (July 2010) #Rstats

In many cases a) often looks difficult, but on closer inspection turns out to be impossible.
-- Bill Venables (about calculating the negative log-likelihood from a non-independence model)
R-help (April 2008) #Rstats

Mastodon instances: User & toot count by registration status.
#rstats

That's a casual model, not a causal model - you can tell the difference by looking for the word "excel".
-- Hadley Wickham (commenting on an Excel chart showing student's SAT score increases with family income, without considering further covariates)
http://twitter.com/#!/hadleywickham (February 2012) #Rstats