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Could not Resist https://link.rweekly.org/e66 #rstats #datascience

Personally I have never regretted trying not to underestimate my own future stupidity.
-- Greg Snow (explaining why eval(parse(...)) is often suboptimal, answering a question triggered by the infamous fortune(106))
R-help (January 2007) #Rstats

R Weekly 2019-17 R 3.6.0, Shiny, Production https://link.rweekly.org/e61 #rstats #datascience

David Winsemius: Any of your staff can view the (open) source code just as any other member of the human race.
Uwe Ligges: I do not think the GPL excludes other species...
-- David Winsemius and Uwe Ligges (following a request for access to the R sources)
R-help (December 2011) #Rstats

Just now I had an apparently insurmountable problem that's been bugging me for days, but phrasing my question in a form suitable for the R-help list enabled me to solve my own problem in two minutes flat.
Thanks everyone.
-- Robin Hankin
R-help (March 2005) #Rstats

Bert Gunter: However, I do not understand the substitute(...()) idiom. Would you care to explain it? (No is an acceptable answer!).
Bill Dunlap: I don't completely understand it either, I treat it as an idiom. I saw it on this list once.
-- Bert Gunter and Bill Dunlap (on how to recover object names when using the ... argument in a function)
R-help (October 2013) #Rstats

Le Monde puzzle [#1099] https://link.rweekly.org/e5h #rstats #datascience

Quick Hit: Scraping javascript-“enabled” Sites with {htmlunit} https://link.rweekly.org/e5g #rstats #datascience

Data Layout Exercises https://link.rweekly.org/e5d #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

R has changed quite a lot recently, and older preconceptions do need to be checked against current information.
-- Brian D. Ripley
R-help (November 2003) #Rstats

A Few Old Books https://link.rweekly.org/e56 #rstats #datascience

March 2019: "Top 40" New CRAN Packages https://link.rweekly.org/e55 #rstats #datascience

Shiny v1.3.2 https://link.rweekly.org/e54 #rstats #datascience

The wiki spamming is a serious problem, [...]. What does a logfile with IPs help? The spammers are strangers selling viagra. I don't want to find them :-)
-- Detlef Steuer (in a discussion on R wikis)
R-help (January 2006) #Rstats

As to whether you can do a Lilliefors test for several groups, that depends entirely on your ability to understand what the underlying question would be (see Adams D 1979).
-- Knut M. Wittkowski
R-help (February 2004) #Rstats

AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: April 2019 https://link.rweekly.org/e4q #rstats #datascience

I thought RStudio was amazing, but RStudio with knitr is approximately `formatC(round(runif(1, 1e8, 1e9)), digits=10, big.mark=',')` times better than RStudio alone!
-- @Geneorama (comment on RStudio's new web publishing service)
RStudio blog (June 2012) #Rstats

In those first years after Bell Labs it was always a struggle to maintain my access to S and Port -- actually even Unix was a problem. I recall the director of campus computing services telling me that Unix wasn't appropriate for educational institutions since it was "too flexible."
-- Roger Koenker (in a discussion about nlminb)
private communication (April 2011) #Rstats

conditionz: control how many times conditions are thrown https://link.rweekly.org/e45 #rstats #datascience