Notices tagged with rstats, page 168

I prefer _Melodramatic Analysis_.
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel (after Barry Rowlingson noticed 'Sentimental Analysis' as a misspelled 'Sentiment Analysis' on datascience.stackexchange.com)
R chatroom on stackoverflow.com (April 2016) #Rstats

Lars Strand: Will R run under Windows Pocket PC?
Brian D. Ripley: We don't know! There are no binary versions of R for that platform, but perhaps you could find a suitable compiler and manage to build the sources.
Outside pure mathematics it is usually very hard to establish that something cannot be done (and it can be very hard in pure mathematics, too).
-- Lars Strand and Brian D. Ripley
R-help (November 2004) #Rstats

My institution has a particularly diabolical policy on intellectual property, especially on software.
-- Ross Ihaka
R-help (August 2003) #Rstats

You say yourself it wasn't reproducible. So it could have been anything that "crashed" your R, cosmic radiation, a bolt of lightning reversing a bit in your computer memory, ... :-)
-- Martin Maechler (replying to a bug report)
R-devel (July 2005) #Rstats

Ted Harding: But you can also do these with 'any' and 'all', e.g. any(v==TRUE).
Thomas Lumley: or any( (v==TRUE)==TRUE), or any( ((v==TRUE)==TRUE)==TRUE)... Or, perhaps, any(v). Lewis Carroll wrote a nice piece on this theme.
-- Ted Harding and Thomas Lumley (about implementing an 'or' of a logical vector)
R-help (August 2004) #Rstats

R has changed quite a lot recently, and older preconceptions do need to be checked against current information.
-- Brian D. Ripley
R-help (November 2003) #Rstats

[Listing original copyright holders in R packages is] especially useful if there are areas of doubt and uncertainty (eg code published on ftp sites before people worried about licenses), since it at least gives you rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.[5]
[5] Adams D, (1978) Hitchhiker's Guide. BBC Radio.
-- Thomas Lumley (in a discussion about copyright vs. licenses)
R-devel (January 2010) #Rstats

Basically, you are calling .Internal from the command line. It is not designed to be called from there and only wizards know what happens if it is. (The set of wizards who might know whether it makes any sense at all does not include me!)
-- Peter Dalgaard
R-devel (May 2014) #Rstats

In real life, be very careful before denigrating a child to its mother or father... so calling a something a bug in R which is none, is evoking feelings among R's parents... ;-)
-- Martin Maechler (after a package author reported a bug in R that was actually a bug in his own code)
R-devel (May 2015) #Rstats

Brian D. Ripley: Add to package utils in R-devel, after correction. I was surprised you had fallen into the 1:0 trap.
Patrick Burns: I'm surprised too -- good catch.
-- Brian D. Ripley and Patrick Burns (after adding Patrick Burns' head() to the utils package)
R-devel (January 2004) #Rstats

Actually the documentation of sunflowerplot is wrong in botanical sense. Sunflowers have composite flowers in capitula, and the things called 'petals' in documentation are ligulate, sterile ray-florets (each with vestigial petals which are not easily visible in sunflower, but in some other species you may see three (occasionally two) teeth).
-- Jari Oksanen
R-help (December 2007) #Rstats

There are companies whose yearly license fees to SAS total millions of dollars. Then those companies hire armies of SAS programmers to program an archaic macro language using old statistical methods to produce ugly tables and the worst graphics in the statistical software world.
-- Frank Harrell
R-help (November 2004) #Rstats

No matter how much progress is made by the developers of screen readers somehow PDF remains less than accessible. It's a bit like a failed relationship in which one partner tries to win the other back with expensive gifts.
-- Paul R. Stanley (in a discussion about text-to-speech processors for the benefit of blind users of LaTeX)
texhax mailing list (March 2009) #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

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I would heed the warnings and diagnostics. They are there for a reason. The Ostrich algorithm does not help you.
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel (in reply to a questioner who said he had not run R CMD check because he suspected other problems would be found)
Stackoverflow (November 2013) #Rstats

Only with a very high signal to noise ratio (e.g., high true R^2) can torturing data lead to a confession to something other than what the analyst wants to hear.
-- Frank Harrell
R-help (April 2010) #Rstats

I think the rule is that you can do anything as long as you don't complain. If you want to complain, you must follow the instructions.
-- Jari Oksanen (about not following the instructions when compiling R-devel)
R-devel (February 2013) #Rstats