Notices tagged with rstats, page 31

Also, that's what Martin Maechler told me and he wrote the code so I trust him on that. I figure that if you have to trust someone to be meticulous and precise then a German-speaking Swiss is a good choice.
-- Douglas Bates
R-help (January 2005) #Rstats

Kenn Konstabel: [...] There's more to this trend: SPSS and Statistica now advertise "R language support": [...]
Charles C. Berry: If you can't beat R, join R.
Marc Schwartz: "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated."
-- Kenn Konstabel, Charles C. Berry, and Marc Schwartz (about the RPro release from REvolution)
R-help (August 2008) #Rstats

Okay, let's stand up and be counted: who has been writing diamond graph code? Mine's 60 lines.
-- Barry Rowlingson (in a discussion about the patent for diamond graphs)
R-help (August 2003) #Rstats

Bug, undocumented behaviour, feature? I don't know. It all seems to work in 1.6.0, so everyone should downgrade now... :)
-- Barry Rowlingson
R-help (July 2003) #Rstats

Availability of Microsoft R Open 3.5.2 and 3.5.3 https://link.rweekly.org/e77 #rstats #datascience

August 12, 1991 Review of S-PLUS Statistical Software https://link.rweekly.org/e76 #rstats #datascience

Naming Software Packages with Common Words https://link.rweekly.org/e75 #rstats #datascience

So, with the item in the original query:

if (x<-3) do_something;

if they wrote it as

if (x<(-3)) do_something;

there would be no problem (and no doubt about what went with what). Of course in complicated expressions this could induce an episode of ocular lispopia, but apart from that it's safe!
-- Ted Harding (about potential confusion between assignment and comparisons with negative numbers)
R-devel (August 2010) #Rstats

Tradition among experienced S programmers has always been that loops (typically 'for' loops) are intrinsically inefficient: expressing computations without loops has provided a measure of entry into the inner circle of S programming.
-- John Chambers
Programming With Data, p. 173 (1998) #Rstats

If we do that, I predict that the total amount of r-help time wasted on it will exceed the CPU time saved by orders of magnitude.
-- Duncan Murdoch (after a specialized function speeding up detection of NAs was suggested for base R)
R-devel (April 2006) #Rstats

R is a complex program. If you can't work out how to find the documentation, I doubt you will be able to use R.
-- David Kirby (in response to a vague question on where to find documentation for R)
R-help (February 2010) #Rstats

Where may Dirk show up: May to July 2019 edition https://link.rweekly.org/e6n #rstats #datascience

runcharter https://link.rweekly.org/e6m #rstats #datascience

Analysing the HIV pandemic, Part 1: HIV in sub-Sahara Africa https://link.rweekly.org/e6g #rstats #datascience

Introducing AzureGraph: an interface to Microsoft Graph https://link.rweekly.org/e6f #rstats #datascience

RStudio 1.2 Released https://link.rweekly.org/e6e #rstats #datascience

Relaunching the qualtRics package https://link.rweekly.org/e6a #rstats #datascience

So, with the item in the original query:

if (x<-3) do_something;

if they wrote it as

if (x<(-3)) do_something;

there would be no problem (and no doubt about what went with what). Of course in complicated expressions this could induce an episode of ocular lispopia, but apart from that it's safe!
-- Ted Harding (about potential confusion between assignment and comparisons with negative numbers)
R-devel (August 2010) #Rstats

The keyboard is the standard Italian layout, which is missing the ~ (tilde) key. [...] Can anyone advice how to produce the ~ symbol, short of a copy/paste from MS Word?
-- Federico Calboli
R-help (March 2004) #Rstats

RcppArmadillo 0.9.400.2.0 https://link.rweekly.org/e67 #rstats #datascience