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hist(rnorm(1e6), col = colors()[grep("grey", colors())], nclass = 108, main = "R's 108 Shades of Grey")
-- Fritz Scholz (proving R has more than 50 Shades of Grey)
private communication (March 2015) #Rstats

My preference goes with the numbering scheme attributed to a tribe on some island in the Pacific which consists of a 'factor' with four levels: 'one', 'two', 'three', and 'lots'. Hence, I'd go with 'lots of R users'.
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel (in a discussion about trying to estimate the number of R users)
R-help (April 2004) #Rstats

New releases: Microsoft R Client 3.4.3, Microsoft ML Server 9.3 https://link.rweekly.org/95v #rstats #datascience

R Tip: Use drop = FALSE with data.frames https://link.rweekly.org/95u #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

RAM is cheap and thinking hurts.
-- Uwe Ligges (about memory requirements in R)
R-help (June 2007) #Rstats

emoji domain names with the puny package https://link.rweekly.org/95n #rstats #datascience

Shiny Case Studies: My new online interactive video course https://link.rweekly.org/95g #rstats #datascience

It's not meant for sampling weights. It's meant for precision weights. How best to include sampling weights in mixed models is a research problem at the moment, but you can rely on getting the wrong answer if you just use the weights= argument.
-- Thomas Lumley (in reponse to a question about specifying sampling weights in lme4)
R-help (January 2012) #Rstats

Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow https://link.rweekly.org/95f #rstats #datascience

The keyboard is the standard Italian layout, which is missing the ~ (tilde) key. [...] Can anyone advice how to produce the ~ symbol, short of a copy/paste from MS Word?
-- Federico Calboli
R-help (March 2004) #Rstats

R Weekly 2018-9 Funding, Keras https://link.rweekly.org/95e #rstats #datascience

R Weekly 2018-9 https://link.rweekly.org/95e #rstats #datascience

Wanted: cdata Test Pilots https://link.rweekly.org/957 #rstats #datascience

I cannot remember if I have been using 14 or 14, I think it was 14 and I am not near the machine to check.
-- John Kane (confused about his SPSS version)
R-help (April 2007) #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

Also, that's what Martin Maechler told me and he wrote the code so I trust him on that. I figure that if you have to trust someone to be meticulous and precise then a German-speaking Swiss is a good choice.
-- Douglas Bates
R-help (January 2005) #Rstats

Well..... SAS is SAS, but R is FREE...
-- Abhishek Rathore (in a discussion about R vs. SAS)
LinkedIn Group Stat-Math Statistics (July 2011) #Rstats

Do tweeps with more followers follow tweeps with more followers? by @ellis2013nz https://link.rweekly.org/93t #rstats #datascience

What Do Data Scientists Need to Know about Containerization? As Little as Possible. https://link.rweekly.org/93s #rstats #datascience