Notices tagged with rstats, page 132

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

If you don't want informative help files, it's really not much work to make uninformative ones.
-- Duncan Murdoch (in response to a question how to install a package without editing .Rd files appropriately before)
R-help (May 2010) #Rstats

This is at best a matter of opinion, and credentials do matter for opinions.
-- Brian D. Ripley (in response to the claim that only 1.79e3 is printed with three significant digits whereas 1790 is not)
R-help (December 2006) #Rstats

Okay, let's stand up and be counted: who has been writing diamond graph code? Mine's 60 lines.
-- Barry Rowlingson (in a discussion about the patent for diamond graphs)
R-help (August 2003) #Rstats

Basically, you are calling .Internal from the command line. It is not designed to be called from there and only wizards know what happens if it is. (The set of wizards who might know whether it makes any sense at all does not include me!)
-- Peter Dalgaard
R-devel (May 2014) #Rstats

I think the amount of people on this list who understand your question is roughly zero.
-- Uwe Ligges (in response to a non-reproducible problem for which additionally subject and body did not match well)
R-help (January 2012) #Rstats

My preference goes with the numbering scheme attributed to a tribe on some island in the Pacific which consists of a 'factor' with four levels: 'one', 'two', 'three', and 'lots'. Hence, I'd go with 'lots of R users'.
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel (in a discussion about trying to estimate the number of R users)
R-help (April 2004) #Rstats

Joshua Wiley: ... the advantages of formal classes seem worth at least not entirely dismissing.
Jim Lemon: Hmmm, yeah, that's about the grammatical equivalent of S4 classes.
-- Joshua Wiley and Jim Lemon (in a discussion about the relative advantages of S3 and S4 classes)
R-help (May 2011) #Rstats

Well..... SAS is SAS, but R is FREE...
-- Abhishek Rathore (in a discussion about R vs. SAS)
LinkedIn Group Stat-Math Statistics (July 2011) #Rstats

I was actually reading it with some curiosity as to how they managed to find 5 locations that were close to everyone on R-help...
-- Peter Dalgaard (after XL Solutions announced courses 'R/Splus Programming Techniques, @ 5 locations near you!')
R-help (April 2004) #Rstats

Obviously I have not tested on an Alphabc...tuvwxyz system but it should work there.
-- Brian D. Ripley (after fixing a problem discovered when compiling R 2.0.0 on Linux Alpha)
R-devel (October 2004) #Rstats

If you don't want informative help files, it's really not much work to make uninformative ones.
-- Duncan Murdoch (in response to a question how to install a package without editing .Rd files appropriately before)
R-help (May 2010) #Rstats

Perhaps one is the real forge and the other is a forgery? Or a forge-R-y? I'll get my coat...
-- Barry Rowlingson (on the question whether http://www.RForge.net/ or http://R-Forge.R-project.org/ is the official forge server)
R-help (April 2007) #Rstats

What sort of editor would overlook this clear and demonstrable message leaping out from the data in favour of some arcane argument about "types of sums of squares"? Several answers come to mind: A power freak, a SAS afficianado, an idiot.
-- Bill Venables
R-help (July 2007) #Rstats

If you give people a linear model function you give them something dangerous.
-- John Fox
useR! 2004, Vienna (May 2004) #Rstats

Rickyfox: Dang it how could I have missed this? Thx for the answer, I feel incredibly stupid now.
Juba: Never underestimate the power of R to make you feel stupid.
-- Rickyfox and Juba (in an exchange over how ifelse() works)
stackoverflow.com (March 2013) #Rstats

I think the amount of people on this list who understand your question is roughly zero.
-- Uwe Ligges (in response to a non-reproducible problem for which additionally subject and body did not match well)
R-help (January 2012) #Rstats

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

It seems to me against the spirit of Open Source software to attempt to monitor distribution. We could ask R to 'call home' on first use (in the way e.g. pine does) but I suspect many users would find that objectionable.
-- Brian D. Ripley (in a discussion about trying to estimate the number of R users)
R-help (April 2004) #Rstats

As for elegance, R is refined, tasteful, and beautiful. When I grow up, I want to marry R.
-- Andy Bunn (in a discussion about whether R is simple, powerful and elegant)
R-help (May 2005) #Rstats