Notices tagged with rstats, page 29

Introducing SAML in RStudio Connect https://link.rweekly.org/ebs #rstats #datascience

The existence of a method is not a sufficient reason to use that method.
-- Jari Oksanen (about relative advantages of several multivariate analysis methods)
R-SIG-Ecology (November 2013) #Rstats

Unfortunately, this is one of those situations where as far as I can tell all of the real statisticians are out there playing with large data sets where the small-sample corrections are not so important and leaving the rest of us to figure it out for ourselves...
-- Ben Bolker (about the 'correct' degrees-of-freedom correction in Wald statistics for GLMMs)
R-SIG-Mixed-Models (December 2011) #Rstats

POWER to the People https://link.rweekly.org/ebm #rstats #datascience

chance call for book reviewers https://link.rweekly.org/ebl #rstats #datascience

Virtual Morel Foraging with R https://link.rweekly.org/ebj #rstats #datascience

John Fox: I've never understood why it's legal to change the built-in global "constants" in R, including T and F. That just seems to me to set a trap for users. Why not treat these as reserved symbols, like TRUE, Inf, etc.?
Rolf Turner: I rather enjoy being able to set pi <- 3.
-- John Fox and Rolf Turner
R-help (June 2013) #Rstats

R Weekly 2019-19 R 3.6.0, countdown, R-Podcast https://link.rweekly.org/eb9 #rstats #datascience

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

RcppAnnoy 0.0.12 https://link.rweekly.org/eb8 #rstats #datascience

Quick Hit: Updates to QuickLookR and {rdatainfo} https://link.rweekly.org/eb4 #rstats #datascience

If you give people a linear model function you give them something dangerous.
-- John Fox
useR! 2004, Vienna (May 2004) #Rstats

Sooner or later most R beginners are bitten by this all too convenient shortcut. As an R newbie, think of R as your bank account: overuse of $-extraction can lead to undesirable consequences. It's best to acquire the '[[' and '[' habit early.
-- Peter Ehlers (about the use of $-extraction)
R-help (March 2013) #Rstats

RcppArmadillo 0.9.400.3.0 https://link.rweekly.org/eb3 #rstats #datascience

What is “Tidy Data”? https://link.rweekly.org/eb2 #rstats #datascience

What is “Tidy Data” https://link.rweekly.org/eb2 #rstats #datascience

Performance tweaks are more often bug sources than fixes.
-- Duncan Murdoch (on Martin Maechler's optimistic plan of porting performance improvements from R's development version to R x.y.z (z >= 1) patch releases)
R-core (June 2016) #Rstats

It is wrong to blame ANY tool for our own shortcomings!
-- Robert Baer (about the perils of using PowerPoint)
R-help (September 2005) #Rstats

John Fox: I've never understood why it's legal to change the built-in global "constants" in R, including T and F. That just seems to me to set a trap for users. Why not treat these as reserved symbols, like TRUE, Inf, etc.?
Rolf Turner: I rather enjoy being able to set pi <- 3.
-- John Fox and Rolf Turner
R-help (June 2013) #Rstats

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