Notices tagged with rstats, page 133

Suggesting a Usenet newsgroup is a generation thing. I think some of the younger users would prefer a Wiki or a Forum (these are words I've seen, but I wouldn't visit places like this, talking about my g-g-generation).
-- Jari Oksanen
R-help (December 2004) #Rstats

I quit using SAS in 1991 because my productivity jumped at least 20% within one month of using S-Plus.
-- Frank Harrell
R-help (November 2003) #Rstats

I have never heard anyone (knowledgable or otherwise) claim that, in the absence of transition costs, SAS is better than R for equity modeling. If you come across any such claim, I would be happy to refute it.
-- David Kane
R-SIG-Finance (December 2004) #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

I'm still confused about how to avoid the wrath of the CRAN-devel daemon, whose appetite for new morsels of developer flesh seems ever increasing and makes keeping even a stable package up-to-date a moving target.
-- Michael Friendly (about checking packages for CRAN)
R-devel (September 2013) #Rstats

You can be maximally lazy, but still be efficient.
-- Kevin Murphy (describing the implementation of an algorithm)
gR 2003, Aalborg (September 2003) #Rstats

Performance tweaks are more often bug sources than fixes.
-- Duncan Murdoch (on Martin Maechler's optimistic plan of porting performance improvements from R's development version to R x.y.z (z >= 1) patch releases)
R-core (June 2016) #Rstats

It is a mistake to assume that everything is known about even the common approximations used in statistical practice, and this area is still opening up.
-- Bill Venables (in a discussion about how fitted generalized linear mixed models can be compared)
R-help (April 2005) #Rstats

R is the lingua franca of statistical research. Work in all other languages should be discouraged.
-- Jan de Leeuw (as quoted by Matt Pocernich on R-help)
JSM 2003, San Francisco (August 2003) #Rstats

Release 1.0.0
(silence)
Wow! Thank you! [...] If I am allowed to ask just one question today: How do you fit 48 hours of coding in an ordinary day? Any hints will be appreciated ... :-)
-- Detlef Steuer (on 2000-02-29)
R-help (February 2000) #Rstats

Can one be a good data analyst without being a half-good programmer? The short answer to that is, 'No.' The long answer to that is, 'No.'
-- Frank Harrell
1999 S-PLUS User Conference, New Orleans (October 1999) #Rstats

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

Let's not kid ourselves: the most widely used piece of software for statistics is Excel.
-- Brian D. Ripley ('Statistical Methods Need Software: A View of Statistical Computing')
Opening lecture RSS 2002, Plymouth (September 2002) #Rstats

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

You may have not been long enough on this list to see that some of the old-time gurus have reached a demigod like status. Demigods have all rights to be 'rude' (that's almost a definition of a demi-deity).
-- Jari Oksanen (in a discussion on whether answers on R-help should be more polite)
R-help (December 2004) #Rstats

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

Warning: Although abusing R was not proved to be addictive, it should be noted that it often leads to harder stuff.
-- Ivan Mizera (self-confessed abuseR)
useR! 2006, Vienna (June 2006) #Rstats

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

Gregor Gorjanc: But imagine how hard would it be to have two separate modes ... argh, probably a mess^2 or have I missed something obvious.
Martin Maechler: Yes, exactly: "Mess ^ 2" -- and if you allow both 'drop' and 'na.rm' options, it's "Mess ^ 3" -- not something anyone really wants!
-- Gregor Gorjanc and Martin Maechler (in a discussion whether 'drop' should be set in options(), possibly depending on different user vs. programmer modes)
R-devel (September 2006) #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