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R Weekly 2018-12 Reviewers, Names, Values https://link.rweekly.org/9gj #rstats #datascience

Most optimization problems have more than one answer, and the "wrong" ones often seem to be easier to find.
-- John C. Nash (about nonlinear optimization problems)
R-help (April 2013) #Rstats

RcppSMC 0.2.1: A few new tricks https://link.rweekly.org/9g5 #rstats #datascience

Le Monde puzzle [#1045] https://link.rweekly.org/9g4 #rstats #datascience

Just [use] MinGW like R [does], following the guides to the letter gets you there like marked stones across a marsh. Leaving the path usually gets you at best neck deep in the mire, alternatively just bubbles.
-- Roger Bivand (explaining what development environment should be used to develop C on Windows (for R))
R-devel (January 2007) #Rstats

Marc R. Feldesman: I'm trying to figure out what could have possibly changed [...] that make Brian Ripley's posts (in particular) not show up on my mail server [...]
Peter Dalgaard: Did you remember to turn off the Oxford-sarcasm filter?
-- Marc R. Feldesman and Peter Dalgaard (Marc R. Feldesman having some e-mail problems)
R-help (January 2005) #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

R is a complex program. If you can't work out how to find the documentation, I doubt you will be able to use R.
-- David Kirby (in response to a vague question on where to find documentation for R)
R-help (February 2010) #Rstats

Don't Use Spaces or Underscores in File Paths; Use Dashes Instead https://link.rweekly.org/9fe #rstats #datascience

Because it's Friday: Email a tree https://link.rweekly.org/9fb #rstats #datascience

RcppClassicExamples 0.1.2 https://link.rweekly.org/9fa #rstats #datascience

RDieHarder 0.1.4 https://link.rweekly.org/9f9 #rstats #datascience

Thanking Your Reviewers: Gratitude through Semantic Metadata https://link.rweekly.org/9f6 #rstats #datascience

Take Care If Trying the RPostgres Package https://link.rweekly.org/9f4 #rstats #datascience

It's not a question of trying variations, rather of following instructions.
-- Brian D. Ripley (about using 'Writing R Extensions')
R-help (January 2006) #Rstats

It will be included in the next version of devtools - it's totally do-able, but no one has done it yet.
-- Hadley Wickham (about doing things)
R-help (February 2016) #Rstats

R 3.4.4 released https://link.rweekly.org/9eq #rstats #datascience

The widespread use of spreadsheets or SPSS data sets or SAS data sets which encourage the "single table with a gargantuan number of columns, most of which are missing data in most cases" approach to organization of longitudinal data is regrettable.
-- Douglas Bates (in a discussion about software for hierarchical data sets)
R-help (February 2010) #Rstats

In many cases a) often looks difficult, but on closer inspection turns out to be impossible.
-- Bill Venables (about calculating the negative log-likelihood from a non-independence model)
R-help (April 2008) #Rstats

The Many Faces of R https://link.rweekly.org/9ef #rstats #datascience