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Lastly, by what we could call the 'Liaw-Baron principle', every question that can be asked has in fact already been asked.
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel (citing Andy Liaw's and Jonathan Baron's opinion on unique questions on R-help)
R-help (January 2006) #Rstats

Leading indicators of economic growth by @ellis2013nz https://link.rweekly.org/bcp #rstats #datascience

So it ***do not refuse*** to read the data. I do not expect some dwarf climbs out from your computer and says he will not read your data. Or is he?
?read.table gives you more details about how to read some data.
-- Petr Pikal (after a post that said read.table() refuses to read unbalanced data)
R-help (October 2004) #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

Le Monde puzzle [#1063] https://link.rweekly.org/bck #rstats #datascience

In case you missed it: July 2018 roundup https://link.rweekly.org/bcj #rstats #datascience

Reflections on 25+ Years of "50 Years of Data Science" https://link.rweekly.org/bch #rstats #datascience

Write a Book with bookdown and Publish with Chapman & Hall https://link.rweekly.org/bcf #rstats #datascience

I still don't know what to do about the compromise between how statistics should be done and how journal editors seem to insist it should be done ...
-- Ben Bolker
R-sig-mixed-models (October 2008) #Rstats

I don't like to see the use of c() for its side effects. In this case Marc's as.vector seems to me to be self-explanatory, and that is a virtue in programming that is too often undervalued.
-- Brian D. Ripley (on how to convert a matrix into a vector)
R-help (March 2007) #Rstats

phylotaR: Retrieve Orthologous Sequences from GenBank https://link.rweekly.org/bce #rstats #datascience

IEEE Language Rankings 2018 https://link.rweekly.org/bca #rstats #datascience

What they forgot to teach you about R https://link.rweekly.org/bc9 #rstats #datascience

August 2018 ISC Call for Proposals https://link.rweekly.org/bc7 #rstats #datascience

Extracting and Processing eBird Data https://link.rweekly.org/bc6 #rstats #datascience

Meta-packages, nails in CRAN’s coffin https://link.rweekly.org/bc5 #rstats #datascience

If you want to do an integer divide, you should only use integers to divide with.
-- Thierry Onkelinx ((not entirely correctly) in an answer to "understanding integer divide (%/%)")
R-help (January 2007) #Rstats

John Kane: I have 120 columns in a data.frame. I have one value in a column named "blaw" that I want to change. How do I find the coordinates?
Roger Koenker: It is the well-known wicked which problem: If you had (grammatically incorrectly) thought "... which I want to change" then you might have been led to type (in another window):
?which
and you would have seen the light. Maybe that() should be an alias for which()?
-- John Kane and Roger Koenker
R-help (August 2006) #Rstats

Wrangling Wikileaks DMs https://link.rweekly.org/bc0 #rstats #datascience

I think [R] addresses a niche market for high-end data analysts that want free, readily available code. [...] We have customers who build engines for aircraft. I am happy they are not using freeware when I get on a jet.
-- Anne H. Milley (director of technology product marketing at SAS, quoted in Ashlee Vance's article "Data Analysts Captivated by R's Power")
The New York Times (January 2009) #Rstats