Notices tagged with rstats, page 155

Robin Hankin: I'd say that without a tool like R you cannot learn statistics.
David Whiting: I believe Fisher and a few others managed to get by without it.
Peter Dalgaard: But think how far they could have got with R!
-- Robin Hankin, David Whiting, and Peter Dalgaard (on teaching/learning statistics with R)
R-help (December 2004) #Rstats

For recursive objects, search for recursive objects.
-- Barry Rowlingson (in a thread about "Recursive objects" and how to search for former discussions about the topic)
R-devel (May 2011) #Rstats

Books I liked in 2017 by @ellis2013nz https://link.rweekly.org/91p #rstats #datascience

Because it's Friday: Hold the Door https://link.rweekly.org/91o #rstats #datascience

Jesus and the rest of the R-help community: Thanks for your help.
-- Mike Saunders (after Jesus Frias answered his question about split-split plots)
R-help (February 2005) #Rstats

Pym.js Library Vulnerability in widgetframe Package https://link.rweekly.org/91n #rstats #datascience

I know barely more than zero about R: until yesterday I didn't know how to spell it.
-- Pete Wilson
stackoverflow (October 2011) #Rstats

Episode 24: Yihui Xie Returns (Rstudio::Conf 2018) https://link.rweekly.org/91k #rstats #datascience

Explain R environments like I’m five https://link.rweekly.org/91j #rstats #datascience

A fresh look for base graphics https://link.rweekly.org/91i #rstats #datascience

We Want to be Playing with a Moderate Number of Powerful Blocks https://link.rweekly.org/91g #rstats #datascience

Most people pay infinitely more to Microsoft for Windows than they pay to R Core for R. I hope that's also the ratio of their complaints to Microsoft about this bug to their complaints to us about R.
-- Duncan Murdoch (after a report that the default R version associated with .R files could not be changed in the standard Windows dialogs)
R-help (May 2011) #Rstats

Tony Plate: It is the prerogative of the members of R-core to decide whether to spend their time on improving documentation or improving the functionality (or merely having a life).
Patrick Burns: I thought we had agreed that members of R-core are not allowed lives.
-- Tony Plate and Patrick Burns (in a thread about how to improve the documentation of R functions)
R-devel (November 2004) #Rstats

Deep learning at rstudio::conf 2018 https://link.rweekly.org/91c #rstats #datascience

I think that the formula language does allow expressions with '/' to represent nested factors but I can't check right now as there is a fire in the building where my office is located. I prefer to simply write nested factors as factor1 + factor1:factor2.
-- Douglas Bates
R-SIG-Mixed-Models (February 2013) #Rstats

Either I am misunderstanding your intent or you need another cup of coffee.
-- Rolf Turner (in response to a user who did not understand his advice)
R-help (November 2013) #Rstats

BH 1.66.0-1 https://link.rweekly.org/919 #rstats #datascience

Multithreaded in the Wild https://link.rweekly.org/918 #rstats #datascience

What does Microsoft do with R? https://link.rweekly.org/916 #rstats #datascience

shinyalert: Easily create pretty popup messages (modals) in Shiny https://link.rweekly.org/915 #rstats #datascience