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This is like asking, "My car doesn't work. Can anyone tell me what is wrong?"
-- Jeff Newmiller (in response to the generic question why "some packages do not work" in R 3.2.5)
R-help (June 2016) #Rstats

Support for hOCR and Tesseract 4 in R https://link.rweekly.org/914 #rstats #datascience

The "one size fits all" approach to data analysis - also known as "give me a quart and a half of statistics and just make sure that there is a p-value less than 5% somewhere in there" - doesn't fit well into the R system.
-- Douglas Bates
R-help (March 2008) #Rstats

Summer interns https://link.rweekly.org/911 #rstats #datascience

Is 10,000 Cells Big? https://link.rweekly.org/910 #rstats #datascience

Diversity scholarships for upcoming R conferences https://link.rweekly.org/90v #rstats #datascience

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

tidygraph 1.1 – A tidy hope https://link.rweekly.org/90s #rstats #datascience

This is a bit like asking how should I tweak my sailboat so I can explore the ocean floor.
-- Roger Koenker (in response to a question about tweaking the quantreg package to handle probit and heckit models)
R-help (May 2013) #Rstats

tfestimators - Package: Embeddings for Categorical Variables https://link.rweekly.org/90j #rstats #datascience

R Weekly 2018-7 rstudio::conf 2018, rOpenSci, TensorFlow https://link.rweekly.org/90h #rstats #datascience

Nothing exceeds like Excel.
-- Roger Koenker (in reply to a question why it takes so long to paste 19,000 lines of R code from Excel into R)
R-help (October 2008) #Rstats

This list is impressive. People are knowledgable, opinionated, ready to help and to flame you for asking elementary question or asking how to use type III SSQ. So, speak softly and carry a beagle. Seriously, sometimes it would be quicker just to give an answer, than to flame a poor soul.
-- Milos Zarkovic
R-help (January 2006) #Rstats

Let's not kid ourselves: the most widely used piece of software for statistics is Excel.
-- Brian D. Ripley ('Statistical Methods Need Software: A View of Statistical Computing')
Opening lecture RSS 2002, Plymouth (September 2002) #Rstats

Please do think hard before you tell other people what they 'should' do for you.
-- Brian D. Ripley
R-devel (January 2006) #Rstats

All Hidden Features will Eventually be Discovered https://link.rweekly.org/8vp #rstats #datascience

Visualising an ethnicity statistical classification by @ellis2013nz https://link.rweekly.org/8vo #rstats #datascience

Because it's Friday: Bon Voyage, Starman https://link.rweekly.org/8vn #rstats #datascience

The style for JSS now enforces (via Achimitization) the use of quotes.
-- Michael Friendly (on whether to quote or not to quote arguments like library("Hmisc") or help("mean"))
R-help (March 2011) #Rstats

.rprofile: Julia Stewart Lowndes https://link.rweekly.org/8vm #rstats #datascience