Notices tagged with rstats, page 28

The Huli of Papua New Guinea use '15' to mean a very large number and '15 times 15 samting (something)' to mean something close to infinity.
-- David Whiting (in a discussion about trying to estimate the number of R users)
R-help (April 2004) #Rstats

RQuantLib 0.4.9: Another small updates https://link.rweekly.org/ee6 #rstats #datascience

Spencer Graves: What do you think about adding a "No RTFM" policy to the R mailing lists?
Michael Dewey: You raise an interesting point but the responses to your post remind us that people (and indeed whole cultures) are not all situated at the same point on the continuum of directness between "It's a cow, stupid" and "From this side it looks not unlike a cow".
-- Spencer Graves and Michael Dewey (reply after a long discussion of a potential "No RTFM" policy)
R-help (August 2010) #Rstats

r/finance, 1 year later https://link.rweekly.org/ee4 #rstats #datascience

Polls v results by @ellis2013nz https://link.rweekly.org/ee3 #rstats #datascience

Mapping Tornado Alley with R https://link.rweekly.org/ee1 #rstats #datascience

It is becoming apparent that you do not know how to use the results from either system. The progress of science would be safer if you get some advice from a person that knows what they are doing.
-- David Winsemius (in response to a user that obtained different linear regression results in R and SPSS and wanted to know which one to use)
R-help (July 2011) #Rstats

The trouble with nonstandard evaluation is that it doesn't follow standard evaluation rules...
-- Peter Dalgaard (about nonstandard evaluation in the curve() function)
R-help (June 2011) #Rstats

John Kane: I have 120 columns in a data.frame. I have one value in a column named "blaw" that I want to change. How do I find the coordinates?
Roger Koenker: It is the well-known wicked which problem: If you had (grammatically incorrectly) thought "... which I want to change" then you might have been led to type (in another window):
?which
and you would have seen the light. Maybe that() should be an alias for which()?
-- John Kane and Roger Koenker
R-help (August 2006) #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

Analysing the HIV pandemic, Part 3: Genetic diversity https://link.rweekly.org/ecv #rstats #datascience

Liang Che: For example, if coefficient's p-value is less than 0.1 I want the stepwise to automatically drop that variable. Can the stepAIC be customized to do that? SAS seems to be able to customized stepwise function with p-value or cooks'd.
David Winsemius: You might take some time to ponder the possibility that the fact that it's not easy in R might be useful information in its own right.
-- Liang Che and David Winsemius
R-help (September 2012) #Rstats

I believe functions should do what they say on the box (and the help page), and not what some user hopes they might do by mind-reading.
-- Brian D. Ripley
R-help (November 2004) #Rstats

rOpenSci Dev Guide 0.2.0: Updates Inside and Out https://link.rweekly.org/ecc #rstats #datascience

Timing Working With a Row or a Column from a data.frame https://link.rweekly.org/ecb #rstats #datascience

Achim Zeileis: Other visualizations of departures from indepence include mosaicplots with shading or association plots. See mosaicplot() and assocplot() and the package vcd.
Peter Dalgaard: I see that you've taken initive to abbriate statiscal concepts...
-- Achim Zeileis and Peter Dalgaard
R-help (January 2005) #Rstats

House effects, herding, and the last few days before the election by @ellis2013nz https://link.rweekly.org/ec3 #rstats #datascience

They're just statistics. How could it hurt to look at them?
-- Duncan Murdoch (in a discussion about the merits and perils of p-values)
R-help (April 2016) #Rstats

an attempt at code golf https://link.rweekly.org/ec0 #rstats #datascience

Introduction to AzureKusto https://link.rweekly.org/ebv #rstats #datascience