Notices tagged with rstats, page 4

I think that the formula language does allow expressions with '/' to represent nested factors but I can't check right now as there is a fire in the building where my office is located. I prefer to simply write nested factors as factor1 + factor1:factor2.
-- Douglas Bates
R-SIG-Mixed-Models (February 2013) #Rstats

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

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

It is all too easy for statistical thinking to be swamped by programming tasks.
-- Brian D. Ripley
DSC 2001, Wien (March 2001) #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

Don't do as I say, do as Hadley does.
-- Barry Rowlingson (in a discussion about the workflow for writing R packages, see also fortune(128))
R-devel (September 2011) #Rstats

Robin Hankin: I'd say that without a tool like R you cannot learn statistics.
David Whiting: I believe Fisher and a few others managed to get by without it.
Peter Dalgaard: But think how far they could have got with R!
-- Robin Hankin, David Whiting, and Peter Dalgaard (on teaching/learning statistics with R)
R-help (December 2004) #Rstats

Michael Watson: Hopefully this one isn't in the manual or I am about to get shot :-S
Peter Dalgaard: *Kapow*...
-- Michael Watson and Peter Dalgaard (question on axis())
R-help (February 2006) #Rstats

'They' did write documentation that told you that Perl was needed, but 'they' can't read it for you.
-- Brian D. Ripley
R-help (February 2001) #Rstats

Igor Sosa Mayor: The problem is that it gives the result that I want.
Sarah Goslee: That's a new sort of problem.
-- Igor Sosa Mayor and Sarah Goslee
R-help (March 2012) #Rstats

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

You might also consider a more informative subject line. "Help needed" is true for all questions (not answers) on R-help. Just think, why is this list called R-***help***?
-- Peter Ehlers (after answering a help request)
R-help (April 2011) #Rstats

I think this is kind of like asking "will your Land Rover make it up my driveway?", but I'll assume the question was asked in all seriousness.
-- Ista Zahn (in response to a request for replication of some data preprocessing done in SAS)
R-help (April 2011) #Rstats

Obviously I have not tested on an Alphabc...tuvwxyz system but it should work there.
-- Brian D. Ripley (after fixing a problem discovered when compiling R 2.0.0 on Linux Alpha)
R-devel (October 2004) #Rstats

I don't like to see the use of c() for its side effects. In this case Marc's as.vector seems to me to be self-explanatory, and that is a virtue in programming that is too often undervalued.
-- Brian D. Ripley (on how to convert a matrix into a vector)
R-help (March 2007) #Rstats

Karl Ove Hufthammer: Why not use 'predict.loess' (i.e., 'predict' on a loess object) directly?
Greg Snow: Because that would be simple, straightforward, and make sense, and not require knowledge about less obvious functions.
-- Karl Ove Hufthammer and Greg Snow
R-help (May 2010) #Rstats

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

I'd have called them .Rob for the current .rds file format (single object), and .Ros for the current .rda file format (>1 objects). [actually I would have called them .Rob or .Robject, and .Rwk or .Rworkspace but then I noticed that if you had a .Rob you had to have a .Ros so as not to favour one or other of the project originators :)]
-- Barry Rowlingson (in a discussion about .rda and .rds formats)
R-help (April 2012) #Rstats

Any doubts about R's big-league status should be put to rest, now that we have a Sudoku Puzzle Solver. Take that, SAS!
-- David Brahm (announcing the sudoku package)
R-packages (January 2006) #Rstats