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wrapr::let() https://link.rweekly.org/dkf #rstats #datascience

hist(rnorm(1e6), col = colors()[grep("grey", colors())], nclass = 108, main = "R's 108 Shades of Grey")
-- Fritz Scholz (proving R has more than 50 Shades of Grey)
private communication (March 2015) #Rstats

If you give people a linear model function you give them something dangerous.
-- John Fox
useR! 2004, Vienna (May 2004) #Rstats

littler 0.3.7: Small tweaks https://link.rweekly.org/dka #rstats #datascience

sparklyr 1.0: Apache Arrow, XGBoost, Broom and TFRecords https://link.rweekly.org/djp #rstats #datascience

Software Dependencies and Risk https://link.rweekly.org/djr #rstats #datascience

Perhaps one is the real forge and the other is a forgery? Or a forge-R-y? I'll get my coat...
-- Barry Rowlingson (on the question whether http://www.RForge.net/ or http://R-Forge.R-project.org/ is the official forge server)
R-help (April 2007) #Rstats

sparklyr 1.0: Arrow, XGBoost, Broom and TFRecords https://link.rweekly.org/djp #rstats #datascience

When a Certain Guru rips strips off people (God knows he's done it to me often enough) on this list, there's a damned good reason for it.
-- Rolf Turner (in a discussion about whether a friendly mailing list with more 'customer service' attitude than R-help was needed)
R-help (December 2003) #Rstats

#20: Dependencies. Now with badges! https://link.rweekly.org/djn #rstats #datascience

The Implementation of `yolo = TRUE` in xaringan via yolofy() https://link.rweekly.org/djm #rstats #datascience

RStudio 1.2 Preview: Jobs https://link.rweekly.org/djl #rstats #datascience

Collecting Content Security Policy Violation Reports in S3 (‘Effortlessly’/’Freely’) https://link.rweekly.org/djk #rstats #datascience

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

The urge to imitate other statistical packages that rely on profusion of dummies should be resisted. R repression functions can handle factor variables.
-- David (Muphry) Winsemius (about factors in regressions...and the dangers of drinking and deriding)
R-help (September 2015) #Rstats

Unit Tests in R https://link.rweekly.org/dje #rstats #datascience

Weird. Over at ESS they discuss how to debug with %>% when I always thought that having %>% was the bug.
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel (about an ESS issue ticket discussion concerning debugging when %>% is used)
R chatroom on stackoverflow.com (April 2016) #Rstats

RStudio Package Manager 1.0.6 - README https://link.rweekly.org/dit #rstats #datascience

Thomas W. Blackwell: I just discovered to my surprise that I cannot define a function with an argument named 'break' or 'while'!
Brian D. Ripley: No, they are reserved names. [...] Most programming languages have reserved words, so I am surprised you are surprised.
-- Thomas W. Blackwell and Brian D. Ripley
R-help (November 2003) #Rstats

2019 Update One: R Consortium and ISC Announce the Newest Funded Projects for the R Community https://link.rweekly.org/dik #rstats #datascience