Notices tagged with rstats, page 53

Josh O'Brien: Figuring out what was going on here obsessed me for several days, before I realized "Oh, duh. I should ask this on [Stackoverflow] and get some better minds working on this for me!"
Brandon Bertelsen: I've learned to give up after 30 minutes. It's cheaper to pay people in checkmarks and upvotes :)
-- Josh O'Brien and Brandon Bertelsen (discussing a package's definition of reorder.factor changing results)
Stackoverflow (October 2012) #Rstats

Justin: Is there a function that just does whatever I'm thinking (aka whatever my homework question is...)?
Joshua Ulrich: That's the magic_pony function.
-- Justin and Joshua Ulrich
stackoverflow.com (June 2013) #Rstats

RcppArmadillo 0.9.200.7.0 https://link.rweekly.org/csd #rstats #datascience

RStudio Connect 1.7.0 https://link.rweekly.org/cs0 #rstats #datascience

Make Teaching R Quasi-Quotation Easier https://link.rweekly.org/crv #rstats #datascience

You are going to need a few more sessions for this therapy to be useful, we cannot read your computer's mind, just interpret what you tell us. I don't want to jump ahead, but can you tell us the childhood of your crashes, etc.
-- Romain Francois (in a 'psychotherapy' session trying to understand the sources of a useR's problems)
R-help (November 2009) #Rstats

You should try things; R won't break.
-- Duncan Murdoch (encouraging a user to explore R's graphical capabilities)
R-help (May 2016) #Rstats

AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: January 2019 https://link.rweekly.org/crr #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

John Fox: I've never understood why it's legal to change the built-in global "constants" in R, including T and F. That just seems to me to set a trap for users. Why not treat these as reserved symbols, like TRUE, Inf, etc.?
Rolf Turner: I rather enjoy being able to set pi <- 3.
-- John Fox and Rolf Turner
R-help (June 2013) #Rstats

Use foreach with HPC schedulers thanks to the future package https://link.rweekly.org/crj #rstats #datascience

There's an informal tradition that those announcements [about R releases] contain at least one mistake, but apparently I forgot this time, so users have to make up their own....
-- Peter Dalgaard (about an apparent non-bug report in his former R-announce message)
R-help (December 2009) #Rstats

This reminds me of a famous FORTRAN code snippet:

10 STOP
STOP
STOP
! IN CASE STILL SKIDDING
GOTO 10

-- Carl Witthoft (in response to the question how to completely stop R scripts after stop())
R-help (January 2011) #Rstats

splashr 0.6.0 Now Uses the CRAN-nascent stevedore Package for Docker Orchestration https://link.rweekly.org/crh #rstats #datascience

R Tip: Use Inline Operators For Legibility https://link.rweekly.org/crg #rstats #datascience

R Weekly 2019-02 leafgl, purrr, timing, docker, vitae https://link.rweekly.org/crf #rstats #datascience

Overall, SAS is about 11 years behind R and S-Plus in statistical capabilities (last year it was about 10 years behind) in my estimation.
-- Frank Harrell (SAS User, 1969-1991)
R-help (September 2003) #Rstats

Byron Ellis: If we wanted to be truly radical we'd just accept that graphics devices and event loops are just special cases of the connection and merge the whole thing, thus more-or-less reinventing CLIM. :-)
Anthony Rossini: Eventually, all programming languages grow up and become Lisp. (progress, progress, and more joyful progress on CLS).
Byron Ellis: Untrue! They may also become Smalltalk :-)
-- Byron Ellis and Anthony Rossini
R-devel (December 2005) #Rstats

rOpenSci's new Code of Conduct https://link.rweekly.org/crc #rstats #datascience

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