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In case you missed it: February 2018 roundup https://link.rweekly.org/9ee #rstats #datascience

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

Miao YU is Looking for a Postdoc Position in the US https://link.rweekly.org/9dq #rstats #datascience

I've already got an apartment reserved for me in one of Pat Burns's "R Inferno" levels, and I don't want to descend even further.
-- Berton Gunter (commenting on his own somewhat off-topic comment)
R-help (February 2013) #Rstats

Rcpp 0.12.16: A small update https://link.rweekly.org/9dp #rstats #datascience

Alternative Design for Shiny https://link.rweekly.org/9dn #rstats #datascience

R rises to #12 in Redmonk language rankings https://link.rweekly.org/9d9 #rstats #datascience

An Ode to Testing, my first review https://link.rweekly.org/9d6 #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

JPM Miao: Why can't R understand if(num!=NA)?
Peter Dalgaard: Because comparison with an unknown value yields an unknown result.
David Winsemius: Anything else would violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics. We cannot have comparisons reducing entropy, now can we? Uncertainty cannot run uphill.
-- JPM Miao, Peter Dalgaard, and David Winsemius (on why is.na() is needed)
R-help (May 2013) #Rstats

The not so obvious value of build passing https://link.rweekly.org/9d1 #rstats #datascience

Steel-ing a Makeover from Tariffic Post https://link.rweekly.org/9ct #rstats #datascience

As for the question of the bug in `is', ... it depends what your definition of `is' is.
-- Douglas Bates (referring to Bill Clinton after a tortuous discussion of the behavior of is(7, "integer"))
R-help (September 2008) #Rstats

R Weekly 2018-11 rstudio::conf 2018, lime https://link.rweekly.org/9cq #rstats #datascience

Tradition among experienced S programmers has always been that loops (typically 'for' loops) are intrinsically inefficient: expressing computations without loops has provided a measure of entry into the inner circle of S programming.
-- John Chambers
Programming With Data, p. 173 (1998) #Rstats

Le Monde puzzle [#1044] https://link.rweekly.org/9cp #rstats #datascience

R Tip: Use the vtreat Package For Data Preparation https://link.rweekly.org/9co #rstats #datascience

'They' did write documentation that told you that Perl was needed, but 'they' can't read it for you.
-- Brian D. Ripley
R-help (February 2001) #Rstats

Rene M. Raupp: Does anybody know any work comparing R with other (charged) statistical software (like Minitab, SPSS, SAS)? [...] I have to show it's as good as the others.
Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen: Sorry. That will be difficult. Couldn't it do to prove it is better?
-- Rene M. Raupp and Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen
R-help (May 2005) #Rstats

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