Notices tagged with rstats, page 57

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

R is Open Source and so you can modify it to emulate the bugs in other software: that is not one of the aims of its developers so please don't expect us to do so for you.
-- Brian D. Ripley (answering a request for a change to Excel-like non IEC 60559 standard conform rounding)
R-help (March 2009) #Rstats

Your and my 2019 R goals https://link.rweekly.org/cle #rstats #datascience

Introducing RcppDynProg https://link.rweekly.org/cl5 #rstats #datascience

2018: Not so bad for running https://link.rweekly.org/cl4 #rstats #datascience

If you think you can learn all of R, you are wrong. For the foreseeable future you will not even be able to keep up with the new additions.
-- Patrick Burns (Inferno-ish R)
CambR User Group Meeting, Cambridge (May 2012) #Rstats

Exploring 2018 R-bloggers & R Weekly Posts with Feedly & the ‘seymour’ package https://link.rweekly.org/cl3 #rstats #datascience

A sufficiently trained statistician can read the vagaries of a Q-Q plot like a shaman can read a chicken's entrails, with a similar recourse to scientific principles. Interpreting Q-Q plots is more a visceral than an intellectual exercise. The uninitiated are often mystified by the process. Experience is the key here.
-- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Murdoch University
StatsNotes #Rstats

R Weekly 2018-53 vroom, Classification https://link.rweekly.org/cl2 #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 long as R stayed in Ross and Robert's computer lab, R could be perfectly clean and beautiful. [...]
The moral of the story is that if you want to create a beautiful language, for god's sake don't make it useful.
-- Patrick Burns (Inferno-ish R)
CambR User Group Meeting, Cambridge (May 2012) #Rstats

For quite a while, bug-for-bug compatibility with S-PLUS v 3.x was considered important to allow people to port their packages between systems.
-- Peter Dalgaard
R-help (February 2009) #Rstats

Top Tweets of 2018 https://link.rweekly.org/ckb #rstats #datascience

Oops. Was that what I was expecting?
-- Louise Matthews (during the practicals of 'Statistical Practice in Epidemiology Using R')
SPE Course, Tartu (May 2005) #Rstats

My #Best9of2018 tweets https://link.rweekly.org/ck8 #rstats #datascience

Rickyfox: Dang it how could I have missed this? Thx for the answer, I feel incredibly stupid now.
Juba: Never underestimate the power of R to make you feel stupid.
-- Rickyfox and Juba (in an exchange over how ifelse() works)
stackoverflow.com (March 2013) #Rstats

Okay, let's stand up and be counted: who has been writing diamond graph code? Mine's 60 lines.
-- Barry Rowlingson (in a discussion about the patent for diamond graphs)
R-help (August 2003) #Rstats

On Disagreement https://link.rweekly.org/cit #rstats #datascience

On Marketing (on Social Media) https://link.rweekly.org/civ #rstats #datascience

Getting flamed for asking dumb questions on a public mailing list is all part of growing up and being a man/woman.
-- Michael Watson (in a discussion on whether answers on R-help should be more polite)
R-help (December 2004) #Rstats