Notices tagged with rstats, page 30

What's new in R 3.6.0 https://link.rweekly.org/eaq #rstats #datascience

Open Trade Statistics https://link.rweekly.org/ead #rstats #datascience

Introducing RStudio Team https://link.rweekly.org/eaa #rstats #datascience

That's a casual model, not a causal model - you can tell the difference by looking for the word "excel".
-- Hadley Wickham (commenting on an Excel chart showing student's SAT score increases with family income, without considering further covariates)
http://twitter.com/#!/hadleywickham (February 2012) #Rstats

Introducing RStudio Server Pro 1.2 - New Features, Packaging, and Pricing https://link.rweekly.org/ea8 #rstats #datascience

Just [use] MinGW like R [does], following the guides to the letter gets you there like marked stones across a marsh. Leaving the path usually gets you at best neck deep in the mire, alternatively just bubbles.
-- Roger Bivand (explaining what development environment should be used to develop C on Windows (for R))
R-devel (January 2007) #Rstats

a perfectly normally distributed sample https://link.rweekly.org/ea5 #rstats #datascience

What sort of editor would overlook this clear and demonstrable message leaping out from the data in favour of some arcane argument about "types of sums of squares"? Several answers come to mind: A power freak, a SAS afficianado, an idiot.
-- Bill Venables
R-help (July 2007) #Rstats

See pages 45 and 46 of V&R's S PROGRAMMING for a definitive discussion of how to do this.
(Confession: I treat anything that V&R say as definitive).
-- Berton Gunter (in reply to the question how to parse a '...' function argument)
R-help (June 2005) #Rstats

x13binary 1.1.39-2 https://link.rweekly.org/e9q #rstats #datascience

Analysing the HIV pandemic, Part 2: Drug resistance testing https://link.rweekly.org/e9p #rstats #datascience

If anything, there should be a Law: Thou Shalt Not Even Think Of Producing A Graph That Looks Like Anything From A Spreadsheet.
-- Ted Harding (in a discussion about producing graphics)
R-help (August 2007) #Rstats

I wish <<- had never been invented, as it makes an esoteric and dangerous feature of the language *seem* normal and reasonable. If you want to dumb down R/S into a macro language, this is the operator for you.
-- Bill Venables
R-help (July 2001) #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

Rolf Turner: In the middle of a Saturday morning (in my Time Zone!) I send out a plea for help, and in just over 20 minutes my problem is solved!
I don't think you get service like that anywhere else. This R-help list is BLOODY AMAZING!
Spencer Graves: 'The sun never sets on the (former) British Empire.' Today, it never sets on R-Help.
-- Rolf Turner and Spencer Graves
R-help (May 2005) #Rstats

Speedmining the Cubing Community with dbplyr https://link.rweekly.org/e9e #rstats #datascience

R Weekly 2019-18 RMarkdown Driven Development, HIV https://link.rweekly.org/e9d #rstats #datascience

Cross posting is sociopathic.
-- Roger Koenker
R-help (November 2008) #Rstats

What sort of editor would overlook this clear and demonstrable message leaping out from the data in favour of some arcane argument about "types of sums of squares"? Several answers come to mind: A power freak, a SAS afficianado, an idiot.
-- Bill Venables
R-help (July 2007) #Rstats

Free online r course https://link.rweekly.org/e96 #rstats #datascience