Notices tagged with rstats, page 34

Welcome to the wonderful world of heterogeneity (tau^2) estimators in meta-analysis. The question of which estimator to choose never fails to provide fun and entertainment for the entire family and I predict that it will do so for generations to come. Please quote me on that!
-- Wolfgang Viechtbauer (in response to a request for the appropriate heterogeneity estimator)
R-SIG-Mixed-Models (May 2015) #Rstats

4 bits are not enough for me!
-- Philippe Grosjean (after conference dinner incl. wine in a conversation about the representation of data in the ff package)
useR! 2009, Rennes (July 2009) #Rstats

RStudio Package Manager 1.0.8 - System Requirements https://link.rweekly.org/e1g #rstats #datascience

Ivo Welch: Thanks. I will put in a suggestion that the docs refer to q() in 'see also' for 'stop'.
Brian D. Ripley: I don't think anyone else is confusing 'exit' with 'stop', though. I hope you don't when driving ....
-- Ivo Welch and Brian D. Ripley
R-help (March 2004) #Rstats

When Standards Go Wild - Software Review for a Manuscript https://link.rweekly.org/e1e #rstats #datascience

You need to prepare your students for the future, not the past.
-- Spencer Graves (making a case for using R in academia)
R-help (November 2006) #Rstats

Le Monde puzzle [#1092] https://link.rweekly.org/e1c #rstats #datascience

Setting up RStudio Server on a Cloud for Collaboration and Reproducibility https://link.rweekly.org/e1a #rstats #datascience

Although there is almost never a "No" in R, the best short answer is: "No".
-- Uwe Ligges (in response to the question whether R has a concept of "const objects" as in C++ that avoid modification)
R-help (March 2011) #Rstats

If you think you can learn all of R, you are wrong. For the foreseeable future you will not even be able to keep up with the new additions.
-- Patrick Burns (Inferno-ish R)
CambR User Group Meeting, Cambridge (May 2012) #Rstats

Controlling Data Layout With cdata https://link.rweekly.org/e0q #rstats #datascience

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

The computational ease with which an abundance of parameters can be estimated should not be allowed to obscure the probable unwisdom of such estimation from limited data.
-- Arthur P. Dempster
in "Covariance selection", Biometrics 28 (1), 157-175 (March 1972) #Rstats

R is wonderful, but it cannot work magic.
-- Rolf Turner (answering a request for automatic generation of 'data from a known mean and 95% CI')
R-help (October 2011) #Rstats

R Weekly 2019-15 Package Development, Data Journalism, R Community https://link.rweekly.org/e0f #rstats #datascience

{attempt} 0.3.0 is now on CRAN https://link.rweekly.org/e0c #rstats #datascience

If you don't go with R now, you will someday.
-- David Kane (on whether to use R or S-PLUS)
R-SIG-Finance (November 2004) #Rstats

Piping is Method Chaining https://link.rweekly.org/e09 #rstats #datascience

It really is hard to anticipate just how silly users can be.
-- Brian D. Ripley
R-devel (October 2003) #Rstats

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