Notices tagged with rstats, page 59

Karl Ove Hufthammer: Why not use 'predict.loess' (i.e., 'predict' on a loess object) directly?
Greg Snow: Because that would be simple, straightforward, and make sense, and not require knowledge about less obvious functions.
-- Karl Ove Hufthammer and Greg Snow
R-help (May 2010) #Rstats

R 3.5.2 now available https://link.rweekly.org/ci6 #rstats #datascience

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

In those first years after Bell Labs it was always a struggle to maintain my access to S and Port -- actually even Unix was a problem. I recall the director of campus computing services telling me that Unix wasn't appropriate for educational institutions since it was "too flexible."
-- Roger Koenker (in a discussion about nlminb)
private communication (April 2011) #Rstats

BH 1.69.0-0 pre-releases and three required changes https://link.rweekly.org/ci4 #rstats #datascience

AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: December 2018 https://link.rweekly.org/ci3 #rstats #datascience

Rotary https://link.rweekly.org/ci2 #rstats #datascience

Ivo Welch: Thanks. I will put in a suggestion that the docs refer to q() in 'see also' for 'stop'.
Brian D. Ripley: I don't think anyone else is confusing 'exit' with 'stop', though. I hope you don't when driving ....
-- Ivo Welch and Brian D. Ripley
R-help (March 2004) #Rstats

Spelling 2.0: Improved Markdown and RStudio Support https://link.rweekly.org/ci0 #rstats #datascience

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

Statistics in Glaucoma: Part III https://link.rweekly.org/chu #rstats #datascience

AzureStor: an R package for working with Azure storage https://link.rweekly.org/cht #rstats #datascience

rcites - The story behind the package https://link.rweekly.org/chs #rstats #datascience

If you don't want informative help files, it's really not much work to make uninformative ones.
-- Duncan Murdoch (in response to a question how to install a package without editing .Rd files appropriately before)
R-help (May 2010) #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

vtreat Variable Importance https://link.rweekly.org/chr #rstats #datascience

R may be the wrong tool for the job, but it's the wrong job.
-- Rolf Turner (about solving 100th degree polynomials)
R-help (May 2008) #Rstats

Well, 'do as we say, not do as we do' applies, I think.
-- Brian D. Ripley (answering a report on a small inconsistency in 'Writing R Extensions' by David Firth)
R-devel (June 2005) #Rstats

R Weekly 2018-51 pdftools, remedy https://link.rweekly.org/cho #rstats #datascience

Quoting Concatenate https://link.rweekly.org/chn #rstats #datascience