Notices tagged with rstats, page 123

Similarly to Brian, I'm much more reluctant to help people who don't exist -- who knows, maybe you're a computer program who has just passed the Turing test :-)
-- Martin Maechler (about postings with anonymous e-mail addresses and without real names)
R-help (March 2006) #Rstats

I think, therefore I R.
-- William B. King (in his R tutorials)
http://ww2.coastal.edu/kingw/statistics/R-tutorials/ (July 2010) #Rstats

A big computer, a complex algorithm and a long time does not equal science.
-- Robert Gentleman
SSC 2003, Halifax (June 2003) #Rstats

That awkward moment when a stackoverflow comment perfectly solves one of your thesis' analysis problems but you don't quite understand how yet. Thanks https://stackoverflow.com/a/41748023/409362 though m) #rstats

R is a strange, deeply flawed language that nevertheless has an enthusiastic and rapidly growing user base. What about R accounts for its popularity in its niche? What can language designers learn from R's success?
-- John Cook (Abstract of "Why and How People Use R")
Lang.NEXT 2012 (April 2012) #Rstats

The problem here is that the $ notation is a magical shortcut and like any other magic if used incorrectly is likely to do the programmatic equivalent of turning yourself into a toad.
-- Greg Snow (in response to a user that wanted to access a column whose name is stored in y via x$y rather than x[[y]])
R-help (February 2012) #Rstats

And the fear of getting Ripleyed on the mailing list also makes me think, read, and improve before submitting half baked questions to the list.
-- Eric Kort
R-help (January 2006) #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

There's an informal tradition that those announcements [about R releases] contain at least one mistake, but apparently I forgot this time, so users have to make up their own....
-- Peter Dalgaard (about an apparent non-bug report in his former R-announce message)
R-help (December 2009) #Rstats

In that flash of darkness he heard people saying - he was a failure - that R was beyond him.
-- Virginia Woolf
To The Lighthouse (May 1927) #Rstats

I cannot remember if I have been using 14 or 14, I think it was 14 and I am not near the machine to check.
-- John Kane (confused about his SPSS version)
R-help (April 2007) #Rstats

I wish there was a better way for me to learn this stuff than constantly being wrong in public.
-- Hadley Wickham (in a discussion about efficient expansion of vectors and algorithmic complexity)
R-help (July 2012) #Rstats

Whoops! I read that e+24 as e-24, so scrub all that I said.
(You'd think, that having seen Bill Venables make a similar error -- which he corrected in the follow-up posting to which I was replying -- I would've been more careful. Well, you'd think wrong. Actually it *was* e-24 when I posted; then the Gremlins got in and changed everything. :-) )
-- Rolf Turner (discussing that f.root from uniroot() is (not) almost zero)
R-help (May 2008) #Rstats

If we told you all of R's secrets, we'd have to kill you.
-- Duncan Murdoch (answering a request for too detailed documentation)
R-help (October 2011) #Rstats

As the name says, studentizing is left as an easy student exercise. Destudentizing is more difficult and usually called professorizing.
-- Dieter Menne (in response to a question whether residuals from nls() are studentized)
R-help (April 2009) #Rstats

When a Certain Guru rips strips off people (God knows he's done it to me often enough) on this list, there's a damned good reason for it.
-- Rolf Turner (in a discussion about whether a friendly mailing list with more 'customer service' attitude than R-help was needed)
R-help (December 2003) #Rstats

riddles on a line https://link.rweekly.org/bhf #rstats #datascience

R tip: Use Radix Sort https://link.rweekly.org/bhe #rstats #datascience