Notices tagged with rstats, page 35

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This is one of those cases, in my opinion, where R's documentation drops you into a flat landscape, in the middle of nowhere, in a thick mist.
-- Ted Harding (helping a user confused about R's partial matching behavior)
R-help (November 2010) #Rstats

Gustaf Rydevik: The author also has some thought-provoking opinions on R being no-good and that you should write everything in C.
Paul Gilbert: People used to say assembler, that's progress.
-- Gustaf Rydevik and Paul Gilbert (in a discussion about an 'R is slow' blog post)
R-help (January 2008) #Rstats

[Listing original copyright holders in R packages is] especially useful if there are areas of doubt and uncertainty (eg code published on ftp sites before people worried about licenses), since it at least gives you rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.[5]
[5] Adams D, (1978) Hitchhiker's Guide. BBC Radio.
-- Thomas Lumley (in a discussion about copyright vs. licenses)
R-devel (January 2010) #Rstats

I seem to recall that we were targetting 512k Macintoshes. In our dreams we might have seen 16Mb Sun.
-- Ross Ihaka (in reply to the question whether R&R thought when they started out that they would see R using 16G memory on a dual Opteron computer)
R-help (November 2003) #Rstats

Well, 'do as we say, not do as we do' applies, I think.
-- Brian D. Ripley (answering a report on a small inconsistency in 'Writing R Extensions' by David Firth)
R-devel (June 2005) #Rstats

Regression Modeling Strategies https://link.rweekly.org/dvm #rstats #datascience

What we have is nice, but we need something very different.
-- Robert Gentleman
Statistical Computing 2003, Reisensburg (June 2003) #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

R Photo https://link.rweekly.org/dv9 #rstats #datascience

It seems that you are facing a very serious fortune(122) problem.
-- Jean R. Lobry (in reply to a user that quickly needed help for his PhD thesis, without properly checking the documentation)
R-help (May 2006) #Rstats

Lost In [SQL] Translation: Charting d[b]plyr Mapped SQL Function Support Across All Backends https://link.rweekly.org/dv7 #rstats #datascience

Please bear with a poor newbee, who might be doing everything backwards (I was brought up in pure math).
-- Thomas Poulsen
R-help (May 2004) #Rstats

Community Call - Security for R https://link.rweekly.org/duf #rstats #datascience

Etienne B. Racine: I haven't seen any documentation about this behavior.
Edzer Pebesma: Isn't the more important question whether you saw documentation that is in conflict with this behaviour?
Tom Gottfried: Taking that to the extremes: undocumented software always works perfectly.
-- Etienne B. Racine, Edzer Pebesma, and Tom Gottfried
R-SIG-Geo (February 2012) #Rstats

Basically, you are calling .Internal from the command line. It is not designed to be called from there and only wizards know what happens if it is. (The set of wizards who might know whether it makes any sense at all does not include me!)
-- Peter Dalgaard
R-devel (May 2014) #Rstats

On Meeting Data Journalists https://link.rweekly.org/du3 #rstats #datascience

The Burden of Demonstrating HTE https://link.rweekly.org/du2 #rstats #datascience

Practical Data Science with R Book Update https://link.rweekly.org/du1 #rstats #datascience