Notices tagged with rstats, page 124

Etienne B. Racine: I haven't seen any documentation about this behavior.
Edzer Pebesma: Isn't the more important question whether you saw documentation that is in conflict with this behaviour?
Tom Gottfried: Taking that to the extremes: undocumented software always works perfectly.
-- Etienne B. Racine, Edzer Pebesma, and Tom Gottfried
R-SIG-Geo (February 2012) #Rstats

I'd have called them .Rob for the current .rds file format (single object), and .Ros for the current .rda file format (>1 objects). [actually I would have called them .Rob or .Robject, and .Rwk or .Rworkspace but then I noticed that if you had a .Rob you had to have a .Ros so as not to favour one or other of the project originators :)]
-- Barry Rowlingson (in a discussion about .rda and .rds formats)
R-help (April 2012) #Rstats

What birds are observed near Radolfzell? Bird occurrence data in R https://link.rweekly.org/bha #rstats #datascience

rstudio::conf(2019) contributed talks & e-posters https://link.rweekly.org/bh9 #rstats #datascience

Materials for Teaching Applied Statistics https://link.rweekly.org/bh5 #rstats #datascience

In those first years after Bell Labs it was always a struggle to maintain my access to S and Port -- actually even Unix was a problem. I recall the director of campus computing services telling me that Unix wasn't appropriate for educational institutions since it was "too flexible."
-- Roger Koenker (in a discussion about nlminb)
private communication (April 2011) #Rstats

rfoaas 2.0.0: Updated and extended https://link.rweekly.org/bh3 #rstats #datascience

Tony Plate: It is the prerogative of the members of R-core to decide whether to spend their time on improving documentation or improving the functionality (or merely having a life).
Patrick Burns: I thought we had agreed that members of R-core are not allowed lives.
-- Tony Plate and Patrick Burns (in a thread about how to improve the documentation of R functions)
R-devel (November 2004) #Rstats

R Weekly 2018-34 Best Practices Badge, Medicine https://link.rweekly.org/bgq #rstats #datascience

More Practical Data Science with R Book News https://link.rweekly.org/bgo #rstats #datascience

#Mastodon Top Level Domains
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#Mastodon instances and users
#Rstats
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The "right" place to store information like this in Windows is in the registry, but we've been reluctant to use it, for various historical reasons. In fact, we were just told today that editing the registry is not allowed by software used by the US government. I think they'll be moving back to the abacus, if they want to stay with Windows.
-- Duncan Murdoch (about where to store some Windows GUI preferences)
R-devel (January 2008) #Rstats

The good way to do it is to include the following comment at the beginning:
"# This is a holy Script, please edit it not"
-- Kenn Konstabel (on "... how to protect R Script files from inadvertent editing by users.")
R-help (April 2011) #Rstats

I have it on good authority that a few of the statements in Bolker (2008) are out of date or slightly incorrect :-) .
-- Ben Bolker (in reply to a user that cited his 2008 practical guide to generalized linear mixed models)
R-SIG-Mixed-Models (August 2013) #Rstats

Mongolite 2.0: GridFS, connection pooling, and more https://link.rweekly.org/bgj #rstats #datascience

Create GIFs with gifski in knitr Documents https://link.rweekly.org/bgh #rstats #datascience

Some of us feel that type III sum of squares and so-called ls-means are statistical nonsense which should have been left in SAS.
-- Brian D. Ripley
s-news (May 1999) #Rstats

Because it's Friday: A Titanic Brexit https://link.rweekly.org/bgb #rstats #datascience

AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: August 2018 https://link.rweekly.org/bga #rstats #datascience