Notices tagged with rstats, page 50

John Kane: I have 120 columns in a data.frame. I have one value in a column named "blaw" that I want to change. How do I find the coordinates?
Roger Koenker: It is the well-known wicked which problem: If you had (grammatically incorrectly) thought "... which I want to change" then you might have been led to type (in another window):
?which
and you would have seen the light. Maybe that() should be an alias for which()?
-- John Kane and Roger Koenker
R-help (August 2006) #Rstats

Homebrew 2.0.0 Released == homebrewanalytics package updated https://link.rweekly.org/d19 #rstats #datascience

As to whether you can do a Lilliefors test for several groups, that depends entirely on your ability to understand what the underlying question would be (see Adams D 1979).
-- Knut M. Wittkowski
R-help (February 2004) #Rstats

Please don't apply R like a magic answers box, because you can mislead others and cause harm.
-- Jeff Newmiller (about how much statistical knowledge is needed for using R)
R-help (May 2016) #Rstats

The Incomplete Book of Running: A Short Review https://link.rweekly.org/d16 #rstats #datascience

Tutorial: Sequential Pattern Mining in R for Business Recommendations https://link.rweekly.org/d0i #rstats #datascience

rOpenSci Software Peer Review: Still Improving https://link.rweekly.org/d0d #rstats #datascience

2-D pie charts are terrible. That makes 3-D pie charts terrible to the 3/2 power.
-- Frank Harrell
R-help (April 2006) #Rstats

Basically R is reluctant to let you shoot yourself in the foot unless you are really determined to do so.
-- Bill Venables (about the warning hist() issues when being called with unequal interval widths and freq=TRUE)
R-help (May 2008) #Rstats

Computational Bayesian Statistics [book review] https://link.rweekly.org/d0c #rstats #datascience

Announcing new software peer review editors: Melina Vidoni and Brooke Anderson https://link.rweekly.org/d0b #rstats #datascience

Readable, obvious, maintainable, 'portable' for some value of 'portable'...
-- Barry Rowlingson (suggesting some function)
R-help (September 2003) #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

missing digit in a 114 digit number [a Riddler’s riddle] https://link.rweekly.org/d02 #rstats #datascience

Time Travel with RStudio Package Manager 1.0.4 https://link.rweekly.org/cvk #rstats #datascience

Just now I had an apparently insurmountable problem that's been bugging me for days, but phrasing my question in a form suitable for the R-help list enabled me to solve my own problem in two minutes flat.
Thanks everyone.
-- Robin Hankin
R-help (March 2005) #Rstats

Fast Static Maps Built with R https://link.rweekly.org/cvj #rstats #datascience

Quick Hit: Using seymour to Subscribe to your Git[la|hu]b Repo Issues in Feedly https://link.rweekly.org/cvg #rstats #datascience

4 bits are not enough for me!
-- Philippe Grosjean (after conference dinner incl. wine in a conversation about the representation of data in the ff package)
useR! 2009, Rennes (July 2009) #Rstats

Watch if R is running from Shiny https://link.rweekly.org/cvf #rstats #datascience