Notices tagged with rstats, page 136

You are going to need a few more sessions for this therapy to be useful, we cannot read your computer's mind, just interpret what you tell us. I don't want to jump ahead, but can you tell us the childhood of your crashes, etc.
-- Romain Francois (in a 'psychotherapy' session trying to understand the sources of a useR's problems)
R-help (November 2009) #Rstats

In that flash of darkness he heard people saying - he was a failure - that R was beyond him.
-- Virginia Woolf
To The Lighthouse (May 1927) #Rstats

PYPL Language Rankings: Python ranks #1, R at #7 in popularity https://link.rweekly.org/aph #rstats #datascience

Big News: vtreat 1.2.0 is Available on CRAN, and it is now Big Data Capable https://link.rweekly.org/apg #rstats #datascience

Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression https://link.rweekly.org/apf #rstats #datascience

This reminds me of a famous FORTRAN code snippet:

10 STOP
STOP
STOP
! IN CASE STILL SKIDDING
GOTO 10

-- Carl Witthoft (in response to the question how to completely stop R scripts after stop())
R-help (January 2011) #Rstats

Gustaf Rydevik: The author also has some thought-provoking opinions on R being no-good and that you should write everything in C.
Paul Gilbert: People used to say assembler, that's progress.
-- Gustaf Rydevik and Paul Gilbert (in a discussion about an 'R is slow' blog post)
R-help (January 2008) #Rstats

RStudio Connect v1.6.4 https://link.rweekly.org/ape #rstats #datascience

Jeff Newmiller's rhelp/ggplot strategy checklist:
> Reproducibility == good (except for mixing in invalid code and failing to set RNG seed)
> HTML email == bad
> Missing subject == bad
> Using matrices with ggplot == pushing a rope
> Using for loops to build a ggplot == missing the point
> Using wide-form data with ggplot == pushing a rope
-- Jeff Newmiller (in response to a somewhat involved ggplot2 question)
R-help (June 2014) #Rstats

One of the beauties of S and R is the syntax closeness to mathematical notation. Many of us know that Lisp has beauties that S can never have, but that's really in different beauty-space.
-- Martin Maechler
R-devel (February 2009) #Rstats

Chat with the rOpenSci team at upcoming meetings https://link.rweekly.org/apc #rstats #datascience

Really not a fish? Scraping my mathematical family tree https://link.rweekly.org/apb #rstats #datascience

In general, it's much easier to create output from a R object than create an R object from output.
-- Hadley Wickham
R-help (December 2009) #Rstats

The problem here is that the $ notation is a magical shortcut and like any other magic if used incorrectly is likely to do the programmatic equivalent of turning yourself into a toad.
-- Greg Snow (in response to a user that wanted to access a column whose name is stored in y via x$y rather than x[[y]])
R-help (February 2012) #Rstats

R Weekly 2018-25 Art, Angry, PDF https://link.rweekly.org/ap9 #rstats #datascience

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

A sufficiently trained statistician can read the vagaries of a Q-Q plot like a shaman can read a chicken's entrails, with a similar recourse to scientific principles. Interpreting Q-Q plots is more a visceral than an intellectual exercise. The uninitiated are often mystified by the process. Experience is the key here.
-- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Murdoch University
StatsNotes #Rstats

David Winsemius: Any of your staff can view the (open) source code just as any other member of the human race.
Uwe Ligges: I do not think the GPL excludes other species...
-- David Winsemius and Uwe Ligges (following a request for access to the R sources)
R-help (December 2011) #Rstats

Vaishali Sadaphal: I need to give my R code to my client to use. I would like to protect the logic/algorithms that have been coded in R. This means that I would not like anyone to be able to read the code.
Duncan Murdoch: R is an open source project, so providing ways for you to do this is not one of our goals. [...] If you think your client will steal from you, then you should find another client.
-- Vaishali Sadaphal and Duncan Murdoch
R-help (July 2011) #Rstats

Build Binary R Packages for the Homebrew Version of R? https://link.rweekly.org/anp #rstats #datascience