Notices tagged with rstats, page 126

data.table is Really Good at Sorting https://link.rweekly.org/be6 #rstats #datascience

Where to go observe birds in Radolfzell? An answer with R and open data https://link.rweekly.org/be5 #rstats #datascience

In-brief: splashr update + High Performance Scraping with splashr, furrr & TeamHG-Memex’s Aquarium https://link.rweekly.org/be4 #rstats #datascience

R/Medicine Conference https://link.rweekly.org/be3 #rstats #datascience

Evaluating Olive McBride with the Arkham Horror LCG Chaos Bag Simulator in R https://link.rweekly.org/be2 #rstats #datascience

What’s new with R Consortium funded projects in Q2 2018 https://link.rweekly.org/bdk #rstats #datascience

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

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

R Weekly 2018-33 Diversity, Books https://link.rweekly.org/bde #rstats #datascience

If 'fools rush in where angels fear to tread', then Bayesians 'jump' in where frequentists fear to 'step'.
-- Charles C. Berry (about Bayesian model selection as an alternative to stepwise regression)
R-help (November 2009) #Rstats

Thomas W. Blackwell: I just discovered to my surprise that I cannot define a function with an argument named 'break' or 'while'!
Brian D. Ripley: No, they are reserved names. [...] Most programming languages have reserved words, so I am surprised you are surprised.
-- Thomas W. Blackwell and Brian D. Ripley
R-help (November 2003) #Rstats

Mid Table Mediocrity https://link.rweekly.org/bd9 #rstats #datascience

As Brian says, there's nothing in the design that lets you do this, but then since you have the source there's nothing on the planet to stop you doing this. The design is not a law :)
-- Barry Rowlingson (answering the question whether the mouse position can be determined without any click)
R-help (February 2004) #Rstats

As Obi-Wan Kenobi may have said in Star Wars: "Use the source, Luke!"
-- Barry Rowlingson (answering a question on the documentation of some implementation details)
R-devel (January 2010) #Rstats

Double Negatives https://link.rweekly.org/bd2 #rstats #datascience

RQuantLib 0.4.5: Windows is back, and small updates https://link.rweekly.org/bd1 #rstats #datascience

rstudio::conf(2019) diversity scholarships https://link.rweekly.org/bd0 #rstats #datascience

Because it's Friday: A data center under the sea https://link.rweekly.org/bcv #rstats #datascience

Redmonk Language Rankings, June 2018 https://link.rweekly.org/bct #rstats #datascience

Only with a very high signal to noise ratio (e.g., high true R^2) can torturing data lead to a confession to something other than what the analyst wants to hear.
-- Frank Harrell
R-help (April 2010) #Rstats