Notices tagged with rstats, page 52

Michael Mason: Thanks! That worked.
Martin Maechler: Of course: As in about 99.99% of all cases where Bill Dunlap helps.
-- Michael Mason and Martin Maechler (after Bill Dunlap helped with a plot.hclust problem)
R-help (November 2014) #Rstats

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

Le Monde puzzle [#1081] https://link.rweekly.org/ctl #rstats #datascience

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

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

RStudio Server on Azure https://link.rweekly.org/cti #rstats #datascience

Tibbles, checking examples, & character encodings https://link.rweekly.org/cth #rstats #datascience

I wish there was a better way for me to learn this stuff than constantly being wrong in public.
-- Hadley Wickham (in a discussion about efficient expansion of vectors and algorithmic complexity)
R-help (July 2012) #Rstats

However, if you want to do this at all efficiently for a data frame, start with my solution not Uwe's [...]
-- Brian D. Ripley (in a second reply to a question related to data frame manipulations)
R-help (June 2004) #Rstats

wateRinfo - Downloading tidal data to understand the behaviour of a migrating eel https://link.rweekly.org/ctd #rstats #datascience

hrbrthemes 0.6.0 on CRAN + Other In-Development Package News https://link.rweekly.org/ctb #rstats #datascience

R Weekly 2019-03 RStudio Conf 2019 https://link.rweekly.org/cta #rstats #datascience

If your ultimate interest is in real scientific progress, I'd suggest that you ignore that sentence (and any conclusion drawn subsequent to it).
-- Andy Liaw (in response to a question on the meaning of the sentence: 'Independent variables whose correlation with the response variable was not significant at 5% level were removed')
R-help (March 2010) #Rstats

I think the rule is that you can do anything as long as you don't complain. If you want to complain, you must follow the instructions.
-- Jari Oksanen (about not following the instructions when compiling R-devel)
R-devel (February 2013) #Rstats

As for the question of the bug in `is', ... it depends what your definition of `is' is.
-- Douglas Bates (referring to Bill Clinton after a tortuous discussion of the behavior of is(7, "integer"))
R-help (September 2008) #Rstats

Statistical computing is not easy, so how could R be? Who has ever claimed it is? Any package that makes statistical computing appear to be easy is probably giving you wrong answers half the time, or is extremely limited in scope.
-- Duncan Murdoch (in a discussion about the usability of R)
R-help (May 2006) #Rstats

Fully General Record Transforms with cdata https://link.rweekly.org/css #rstats #datascience

Most people pay infinitely more to Microsoft for Windows than they pay to R Core for R. I hope that's also the ratio of their complaints to Microsoft about this bug to their complaints to us about R.
-- Duncan Murdoch (after a report that the default R version associated with .R files could not be changed in the standard Windows dialogs)
R-help (May 2011) #Rstats

If you want to do an integer divide, you should only use integers to divide with.
-- Thierry Onkelinx ((not entirely correctly) in an answer to "understanding integer divide (%/%)")
R-help (January 2007) #Rstats

Summer Internships 2019 https://link.rweekly.org/csf #rstats #datascience