Notices tagged with rstats, page 56

It is a mistake to assume that everything is known about even the common approximations used in statistical practice, and this area is still opening up.
-- Bill Venables (in a discussion about how fitted generalized linear mixed models can be compared)
R-help (April 2005) #Rstats

Firstly, don't call your matrix 'matrix'. Would you call your dog 'dog'? Anyway, it might clash with the function 'matrix'.
-- Barry Rowlingson
R-help (October 2004) #Rstats

The documentation level of R is already much higher than average for open source software and even than some commercial packages (esp. SPSS is notorious for its attitude of "You want to do one of these things. If you don't understand what the output means, click help and we'll pop up five lines of mumbo-jumbo that you're not going to understand either.")
-- Peter Dalgaard
R-help (April 2002) #Rstats

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

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

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

Perhaps same thing that will happen when those monks finish the Towers of Hanoi?
2 * 3^198
[1] 5.902533e+94
-- David Winsemius (in reponse to a question about expand.grid(x1=1, x2=1:2, x3=1:3, x4=1:3, x5=1:3, ..., x200=1:3))
R-help (January 2012) #Rstats

SAS seems to be to statistical computing what Microsoft is to personal computing.
-- Bill Venables
'Exegeses on Linear Models' paper (May 2000) #Rstats

Knut Krueger: Is there any function available to combine those p values?
Stephan Kolassa: ?"+"
-- Knut Krueger and Stephan Kolassa (about ways to combine p values from different tests)
R-help (July 2010) #Rstats

R is the lingua franca of statistical research. Work in all other languages should be discouraged.
-- Jan de Leeuw (as quoted by Matt Pocernich on R-help)
JSM 2003, San Francisco (August 2003) #Rstats

Notebooks from the Practical AI Workshop https://link.rweekly.org/cm5 #rstats #datascience

‘data:’ Scraping & Chart Reproduction : Arrows of Environmental Destruction https://link.rweekly.org/cm4 #rstats #datascience

Brian Ripley: Where did you tell it [...]? (Nowhere: R is lacking a mind_read() function!)
Peter Dalgaard: Please stop complaining about missing features. Patches will be considered.

Oh, it's you, Brian. Never mind then. You'll get to it, I'm sure. ;-)
-- Brian Ripley and Peter Dalgaard (answering why abline(lm(x~y)) would not work)
R-help (January 2007) #Rstats

In general, it's much easier to create output from a R object than create an R object from output.
-- Hadley Wickham
R-help (December 2009) #Rstats

gganimate has transitioned to a state of release https://link.rweekly.org/cm3 #rstats #datascience

Apache Drill 1.15.0 + sergeant 0.8.0 = pcapng Support, Proper Column Types & Mounds of New Metadata https://link.rweekly.org/clt #rstats #datascience

2018 R Views Review and Highlights https://link.rweekly.org/cls #rstats #datascience

2018 through {cranlogs} https://link.rweekly.org/clr #rstats #datascience

The widespread use of spreadsheets or SPSS data sets or SAS data sets which encourage the "single table with a gargantuan number of columns, most of which are missing data in most cases" approach to organization of longitudinal data is regrettable.
-- Douglas Bates (in a discussion about software for hierarchical data sets)
R-help (February 2010) #Rstats

Entering and Exiting 2018 https://link.rweekly.org/clg #rstats #datascience