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R 3.5.3 now available https://link.rweekly.org/dij #rstats #datascience

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

As Obi-Wan Kenobi may have said in Star Wars: "Use the source, Luke!"
-- Barry Rowlingson (answering a question on the documentation of some implementation details)
R-devel (January 2010) #Rstats

Community Call - Research Applications of rOpenSci Taxonomy and Biodiversity Tools https://link.rweekly.org/dia #rstats #datascience

It's not meant for sampling weights. It's meant for precision weights. How best to include sampling weights in mixed models is a research problem at the moment, but you can rely on getting the wrong answer if you just use the weights= argument.
-- Thomas Lumley (in reponse to a question about specifying sampling weights in lme4)
R-help (January 2012) #Rstats

As for elegance, R is refined, tasteful, and beautiful. When I grow up, I want to marry R.
-- Andy Bunn (in a discussion about whether R is simple, powerful and elegant)
R-help (May 2005) #Rstats

R Weekly 2019-10 Exceptions, Troubleshooting, ggforce https://link.rweekly.org/di8 #rstats #datascience

Exploring swings in Australian federal elections by @ellis2013nz https://link.rweekly.org/di7 #rstats #datascience

Data Manipulation Corner Cases https://link.rweekly.org/di6 #rstats #datascience

The RStudio macOS Rendering Bug https://link.rweekly.org/di5 #rstats #datascience

Wrangling Content Security Policies in R https://link.rweekly.org/di3 #rstats #datascience

Awkwardly worded questions will get much better answers if they are accompanied by some test data.
-- David Winsemius (in response to a poster's apology for an 'awkwardly worded question')
R-help (September 2012) #Rstats

Barry Rowlingson: Your grid above has 8*6 = 42 points.
(That was a subtle Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy reference there, honest, and not a stupid dumb multiplication mistake on my part after working four 18-hour days on the trot...)
Peter Dalgaard: [...] Don't panic, just throw yourself at the ground and miss.
-- Barry Rowlingson and Peter Dalgaard
R-help (March 2004) #Rstats

Brian D. Ripley: Add to package utils in R-devel, after correction. I was surprised you had fallen into the 1:0 trap.
Patrick Burns: I'm surprised too -- good catch.
-- Brian D. Ripley and Patrick Burns (after adding Patrick Burns' head() to the utils package)
R-devel (January 2004) #Rstats

I would heed the warnings and diagnostics. They are there for a reason. The Ostrich algorithm does not help you.
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel (in reply to a questioner who said he had not run R CMD check because he suspected other problems would be found)
Stackoverflow (November 2013) #Rstats

RcppArmadillo 0.9.200.7.1 https://link.rweekly.org/dhp #rstats #datascience

Building tidy tools workshop https://link.rweekly.org/dhl #rstats #datascience

Sooner or later most R beginners are bitten by this all too convenient shortcut. As an R newbie, think of R as your bank account: overuse of $-extraction can lead to undesirable consequences. It's best to acquire the '[[' and '[' habit early.
-- Peter Ehlers (about the use of $-extraction)
R-help (March 2013) #Rstats

I used a heuristic... pulled from my posterior. That makes it Bayesian, right?
-- JD Long (in a not too serious chat about modeling strategies)
Stackoverflow (November 2010) #Rstats

R Consortium Welcomes Genentech as Gold Member https://link.rweekly.org/dh1 #rstats #datascience