Notices tagged with rstats, page 38

Better predictions for AFL from adjusted Elo ratings by @ellis2013nz https://link.rweekly.org/dp2 #rstats #datascience

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

RSAGA 1.0.0 https://link.rweekly.org/dp0 #rstats #datascience

Wrapping up the stars project https://link.rweekly.org/dov #rstats #datascience

The problem, as always, is what the heck does one mean by 'outlier' in these contexts. Seems to be like pornography -- "I know it when I see it."
-- Berton Gunter (quoting Justice Potter Stewart in a discussion about tests for outliers)
R-help (April 2005) #Rstats

no country for old liars https://link.rweekly.org/dop #rstats #datascience

You can be maximally lazy, but still be efficient.
-- Kevin Murphy (describing the implementation of an algorithm)
gR 2003, Aalborg (September 2003) #Rstats

I think the amount of people on this list who understand your question is roughly zero.
-- Uwe Ligges (in response to a non-reproducible problem for which additionally subject and body did not match well)
R-help (January 2012) #Rstats

drat 0.1.5: New release https://link.rweekly.org/do9 #rstats #datascience

RAM is cheap and thinking hurts.
-- Uwe Ligges (about memory requirements in R)
R-help (June 2007) #Rstats

Oh, gosh, this is getting whimsical.
R, I surmise, is a mutable tool that enables the user to do what they want. Knapped flint for the Stone Age statistical fool, plasma arc for the expert and learned savant.
R is a friend to all manner of men. The perfect companion, the servant complete. It gently informeth the clueless and then, reveals the essence unto the esthete.
-- Jim Lemon (in a discussion about the usability of R)
R-help (May 2006) #Rstats

#21: A Third and Final (?) Post on Stripping R Libraries https://link.rweekly.org/do4 #rstats #datascience

(x=scan())%in%(2*4^(n=0:x)-2^n-1) https://link.rweekly.org/do3 #rstats #datascience

CII Best Practices – R Package Leaderboard https://link.rweekly.org/do2 #rstats #datascience

Contrary to popular belief the speed of R's interpreter is rarely the limiting factor to R's speed. People treating R like C is typically the limiting factor. You have vector operations, USE THEM.
-- Byron Ellis
R-help (October 2005) #Rstats

Bandwidth selection is an unresolved (and possibly unsolvable) problem in smoothing, so you're perfectly justified in trying/choosing an arbitrary value if it produces good pictures!
-- Adrian Baddeley (answering a user's question about the choice of smoothing parameter when using the density.ppp() function from the spatstat package)
private communication (March 2013) #Rstats

Rome Was Not Built In A Day But widgetcard Was! https://link.rweekly.org/dnv #rstats #datascience

Trellis graphics are a bit like hash functions: you can be close to the target, but get a far-off result.
-- Dieter Menne (about problems with creating a suitable lattice panel function)
R-help (August 2008) #Rstats

Eric Lecoutre: I don't want to die being idiot...
Peter Dalgaard: With age, most of us come to realise that that is the only possible outcome.
-- Eric Lecoutre and Peter Dalgaard
R-help (October 2004) #Rstats

Operator Notation for Data Transforms https://link.rweekly.org/dnt #rstats #datascience