Notices tagged with rstats, page 134

The "one size fits all" approach to data analysis - also known as "give me a quart and a half of statistics and just make sure that there is a p-value less than 5% somewhere in there" - doesn't fit well into the R system.
-- Douglas Bates
R-help (March 2008) #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

Zhu Wang: I am trying to create a library which uses some Fortran source files [...]
Douglas Bates: Someone named Martin Maechler will shortly be sending you email regarding the distinction between 'library' and 'package' :-)
-- Zhu Wang and Douglas Bates
R-help (May 2004) #Rstats

Teach a man to fish, and he'll use StackOverflow for a day. Give him a fish, and he'll use StackOverflow for a lifetime of free fish.
-- Joshua Ulrich (about pointing to R documentation on StackOverflow)
stackoverflow.com (May 2016) #Rstats

Bug, undocumented behaviour, feature? I don't know. It all seems to work in 1.6.0, so everyone should downgrade now... :)
-- Barry Rowlingson
R-help (July 2003) #Rstats

I prefer _Melodramatic Analysis_.
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel (after Barry Rowlingson noticed 'Sentimental Analysis' as a misspelled 'Sentiment Analysis' on datascience.stackexchange.com)
R chatroom on stackoverflow.com (April 2016) #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

Maybe I'll become a theoretician. Nobody expects you to maintain a theorem.
-- Doug Bates (about keeping both Matrix and RcppEigen in sync with CHOLMOD)
lme4-authors (September 2013) #Rstats

Nothing exceeds like Excel.
-- Roger Koenker (in reply to a question why it takes so long to paste 19,000 lines of R code from Excel into R)
R-help (October 2008) #Rstats

Ivo Welch: Thanks. I will put in a suggestion that the docs refer to q() in 'see also' for 'stop'.
Brian D. Ripley: I don't think anyone else is confusing 'exit' with 'stop', though. I hope you don't when driving ....
-- Ivo Welch and Brian D. Ripley
R-help (March 2004) #Rstats

But a difference of a few minutes means that this is well under 20% of the total time unless your statistical analysis is very much speedier than mine.
-- Brian D. Ripley
R-devel (November 2003) #Rstats

So good advice here is: Beware of good advice about this. (Of course, I may just be an outlier ...)
-- Berton Gunter (replying to the question what the best way to detect an outlier is)
R-help (September 2004) #Rstats

I used a heuristic... pulled from my posterior. That makes it Bayesian, right?
-- JD Long (in a not too serious chat about modeling strategies)
Stackoverflow (November 2010) #Rstats

Kenn Konstabel: [...] There's more to this trend: SPSS and Statistica now advertise "R language support": [...]
Charles C. Berry: If you can't beat R, join R.
Marc Schwartz: "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated."
-- Kenn Konstabel, Charles C. Berry, and Marc Schwartz (about the RPro release from REvolution)
R-help (August 2008) #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

Karl Ove Hufthammer: Why not use 'predict.loess' (i.e., 'predict' on a loess object) directly?
Greg Snow: Because that would be simple, straightforward, and make sense, and not require knowledge about less obvious functions.
-- Karl Ove Hufthammer and Greg Snow
R-help (May 2010) #Rstats

No matter how much progress is made by the developers of screen readers somehow PDF remains less than accessible. It's a bit like a failed relationship in which one partner tries to win the other back with expensive gifts.
-- Paul R. Stanley (in a discussion about text-to-speech processors for the benefit of blind users of LaTeX)
texhax mailing list (March 2009) #Rstats

The only people who should use the assign function are those who fully understand why you should never use the assign function.
-- Greg Snow
R-help (July 2009) #Rstats

memory problems (not me. my pc!)
-- Sara Mouro (subject line for an R-help request)
R-help (January 2008) #Rstats

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