Notices tagged with rstats, page 2

R will always be arcane to those who do not make a serious effort to learn it. It is **not** meant to be intuitive and easy for casual users to just plunge into. It is far too complex and powerful for that. But the rewards are great for serious data analysts who put in the effort.
-- Berton Gunter
R-help (August 2007) #Rstats

You should try things; R won't break.
-- Duncan Murdoch (encouraging a user to explore R's graphical capabilities)
R-help (May 2016) #Rstats

3-D bar plots are an abomination. Just because Excel can do them doesn't mean you should.
(Dismount pulpit).
-- Berton Gunter
R-help (October 2007) #Rstats

Obviously I have not tested on an Alphabc...tuvwxyz system but it should work there.
-- Brian D. Ripley (after fixing a problem discovered when compiling R 2.0.0 on Linux Alpha)
R-devel (October 2004) #Rstats

I think we can reject the null hypothesis of "Dirk can type" at all convential significance levels.
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel (after several users including himself had misspelled Ubuntu as Umbutu or Ubunto)
R-help (April 2005) #Rstats

It is good to look around at what is available, but one shouldn't miss what is under one's nose either.
-- Robert Gentleman
bioconductor (September 2003) #Rstats

Tony Plate: There looks to be a typo in the R-exts manual: [...]
Peter Dalgaard: 'svn blame' tells me that this was Brian's addition in rev.35362 [...]
Brian D. Ripley: I prefer 'svn praise' myself.
Peter Dalgaard: Or 'svn annotate'. I think it depends on what I'm looking for, plus the risk that the author (perpetrator, contributor) might be me...
-- Tony Plate, Peter Dalgaard, and Brian D. Ripley (about a typo in the documentation)
R-devel (April 2007) #Rstats

I suggest that we redefine "+" to be a legal character in the name of an identifier. Sure, if you used to have "a+b" you'll have to rewrite it as "+(a,b)", but think of the benefits! You+can+write+out+long+sentences+and+use+them+as+variable+names!
-- Duncan Murdoch (in a discussion whether to use underscore, dot, or mixed case in variable names)
R-help (May 2005) #Rstats

Jeremy Koster: My students were looking at the estimated varying intercepts for each higher-level group (or the "BLUP's", as some people seem to call them).
Douglas Bates: As Alan James once said, "these values are just like the BLUPs - Best Linear Unbiased Predictors - except that they aren't linear and they aren't unbiased and there is no clear sense in which they are "best", but other than that ..."
-- Jeremy Koster and Douglas Bates
R-SIG-Mixed-Models (July 2012) #Rstats

This is one of those cases, in my opinion, where R's documentation drops you into a flat landscape, in the middle of nowhere, in a thick mist.
-- Ted Harding (helping a user confused about R's partial matching behavior)
R-help (November 2010) #Rstats

As the name says, studentizing is left as an easy student exercise. Destudentizing is more difficult and usually called professorizing.
-- Dieter Menne (in response to a question whether residuals from nls() are studentized)
R-help (April 2009) #Rstats

I'll go back to lurking in the daily R-Helps and not ask any more questions until I've read all the old R-help messages. I'm working on December 1998 right now and reading forward. Perhaps by next year I'll will have read all the old R-help postings and I'll dare ask another question then.
-- Earl F. Glynn
R-help (January 2012) #Rstats

Rickyfox: Dang it how could I have missed this? Thx for the answer, I feel incredibly stupid now.
Juba: Never underestimate the power of R to make you feel stupid.
-- Rickyfox and Juba (in an exchange over how ifelse() works)
stackoverflow.com (March 2013) #Rstats

You can be maximally lazy, but still be efficient.
-- Kevin Murphy (describing the implementation of an algorithm)
gR 2003, Aalborg (September 2003) #Rstats

I quit using SAS in 1991 because my productivity jumped at least 20% within one month of using S-Plus.
-- Frank Harrell
R-help (November 2003) #Rstats

Bret Collier: I hope this is not a uniformed question, but I am a little lost.
Peter Dalgaard: Don't worry, they all look alike... ;-)
-- Bret Collier and Peter Dalgaard
R-help (April 2004) #Rstats

Well, if I had written that, it would have been on purpose ...
-- Kurt Hornik (after Torsten Hothorn reported the 'typo' automa*g*ically in ?NotYetImplemented)
R-devel (January 2005) #Rstats

Don't do as I say, do as Hadley does.
-- Barry Rowlingson (in a discussion about the workflow for writing R packages, see also fortune(128))
R-devel (September 2011) #Rstats

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

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