Notices tagged with rstats, page 144

.RData files (the ones with nothing before the period) are just traps for your future self, with no documentation. I avoid them like the plague.
-- Jeff Newmiller (in a discussion on whether to store certain defaults in .Rprofile or .RData files)
R-help (March 2015) #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

Brian D. Ripley: Add to package utils in R-devel, after correction. I was surprised you had fallen into the 1:0 trap.
Patrick Burns: I'm surprised too -- good catch.
-- Brian D. Ripley and Patrick Burns (after adding Patrick Burns' head() to the utils package)
R-devel (January 2004) #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

If you aren't sure of the relative priority of two operators, use parentheses. 1:(nr-1) would work regardless of whether : or - had higher priority. Or, in extreme cases, read the documentation.
-- Duncan Murdoch
R-help (August 2005) #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

I want a budget.
-- Peter Dalgaard (in a talk about Tcl/Tk, meaning to say 'I want a button widget')
gR 2003, Aalborg (September 2003) #Rstats

You say yourself it wasn't reproducible. So it could have been anything that "crashed" your R, cosmic radiation, a bolt of lightning reversing a bit in your computer memory, ... :-)
-- Martin Maechler (replying to a bug report)
R-devel (July 2005) #Rstats

Etienne B. Racine: I haven't seen any documentation about this behavior.
Edzer Pebesma: Isn't the more important question whether you saw documentation that is in conflict with this behaviour?
Tom Gottfried: Taking that to the extremes: undocumented software always works perfectly.
-- Etienne B. Racine, Edzer Pebesma, and Tom Gottfried
R-SIG-Geo (February 2012) #Rstats

.RData files (the ones with nothing before the period) are just traps for your future self, with no documentation. I avoid them like the plague.
-- Jeff Newmiller (in a discussion on whether to store certain defaults in .Rprofile or .RData files)
R-help (March 2015) #Rstats

Cross posting is sociopathic.
-- Roger Koenker
R-help (November 2008) #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

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

Byron Ellis: If we wanted to be truly radical we'd just accept that graphics devices and event loops are just special cases of the connection and merge the whole thing, thus more-or-less reinventing CLIM. :-)
Anthony Rossini: Eventually, all programming languages grow up and become Lisp. (progress, progress, and more joyful progress on CLS).
Byron Ellis: Untrue! They may also become Smalltalk :-)
-- Byron Ellis and Anthony Rossini
R-devel (December 2005) #Rstats

There's an informal tradition that those announcements [about R releases] contain at least one mistake, but apparently I forgot this time, so users have to make up their own....
-- Peter Dalgaard (about an apparent non-bug report in his former R-announce message)
R-help (December 2009) #Rstats

If you really want to assess uncertainty you need to take into account that the models are false and that several models may capture different aspects of the data and so be false in different ways.
-- Brian D. Ripley
R-help (July 2007) #Rstats

You need to get the hang of reading the online help. The information required is actually there in ?dotchart --- it's just tersely and obscurely expressed. A certain degree of optimism is required. You need to ***believe*** that the information is there; then ask yourself "What could they possibly mean by what they have written that would tell me what I need to know?".
-- Rolf Turner (on reading the help pages)
R-help (June 2013) #Rstats

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

Ooops, that was answering the question you actually asked. The one you meant to ask is answered by this part:
The sort order for character vectors will depend on the collating sequence of the locale in use: see Comparison.
-- Peter Dalgaard (demonstrating his mind-reading skills when answering questions about sorting characters)
R-help (March 2016) #Rstats

Getting flamed for asking dumb questions on a public mailing list is all part of growing up and being a man/woman.
-- Michael Watson (in a discussion on whether answers on R-help should be more polite)
R-help (December 2004) #Rstats