Notices tagged with rstats, page 6

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

As the name says, studentizing is left as an easy student exercise. Destudentizing is more difficult and usually called professorizing.
-- Dieter Menne (in response to a question whether residuals from nls() are studentized)
R-help (April 2009) #Rstats

4 bits are not enough for me!
-- Philippe Grosjean (after conference dinner incl. wine in a conversation about the representation of data in the ff package)
useR! 2009, Rennes (July 2009) #Rstats

Lars Strand: Will R run under Windows Pocket PC?
Brian D. Ripley: We don't know! There are no binary versions of R for that platform, but perhaps you could find a suitable compiler and manage to build the sources.
Outside pure mathematics it is usually very hard to establish that something cannot be done (and it can be very hard in pure mathematics, too).
-- Lars Strand and Brian D. Ripley
R-help (November 2004) #Rstats

When in doubt, keep adding slashes until it works.
-- Joran Elias (on how to escape a backslash in R)
Stackoverflow (March 2015) #Rstats

If you really want to assess uncertainty you need to take into account that the models are false and that several models may capture different aspects of the data and so be false in different ways.
-- Brian D. Ripley
R-help (July 2007) #Rstats

You seem to be falling prey to a common misconception that "R" is some monolithic tool, when in fact it is a herd of cats.
-- Jeff Newmiller (in response to a user who did not look for packages)
R-help (December 2013) #Rstats

This has been discussed before in this list, and Ripley said "no, no!". I do it all the time, but only in secrecy.
-- Jari Oksanen (about replacing zero distances with tiny values for isoMDS())
R-help (April 2006) #Rstats

It appears to me that you do not understand even basic statistics. As a corollary to that impression I would suggest that giving you advice about the use of R for scientific investigation could be morally similar to giving you advice about how to do your own household wiring.
-- David Winsemius
R-help (November 2009) #Rstats

Bret Collier: I hope this is not a uniformed question, but I am a little lost.
Peter Dalgaard: Don't worry, they all look alike... ;-)
-- Bret Collier and Peter Dalgaard
R-help (April 2004) #Rstats

The problem here is that the $ notation is a magical shortcut and like any other magic if used incorrectly is likely to do the programmatic equivalent of turning yourself into a toad.
-- Greg Snow (in response to a user that wanted to access a column whose name is stored in y via x$y rather than x[[y]])
R-help (February 2012) #Rstats

As one of the developers of the nls function I would like to state that the lack of automatic ANOVA, R^2 and adj. R^2 from nls is a feature, not a bug :-)
-- Douglas Bates (in reply to a request for automatic ANOVA of NLS models as in Statistica)
R-help (August 2000) #Rstats

Soon, they'll be speaking R on the subway.
-- Michael Rennie (giving 'Kudos to the R support team')
R-help (July 2004) #Rstats

Actually the documentation of sunflowerplot is wrong in botanical sense. Sunflowers have composite flowers in capitula, and the things called 'petals' in documentation are ligulate, sterile ray-florets (each with vestigial petals which are not easily visible in sunflower, but in some other species you may see three (occasionally two) teeth).
-- Jari Oksanen
R-help (December 2007) #Rstats

I think [R] addresses a niche market for high-end data analysts that want free, readily available code. [...] We have customers who build engines for aircraft. I am happy they are not using freeware when I get on a jet.
-- Anne H. Milley (director of technology product marketing at SAS, quoted in Ashlee Vance's article "Data Analysts Captivated by R's Power")
The New York Times (January 2009) #Rstats

There seem to be three canons: R-Forge, Rforge, and for the Followers of Wickham, github. Four, if you count OmegaHat.
-- David Winsemius (in a discussion about the 'canonical' source code management platform for R)
R-help (February 2012) #Rstats

There seem to be three canons: R-Forge, Rforge, and for the Followers of Wickham, github. Four, if you count OmegaHat.
-- David Winsemius (in a discussion about the 'canonical' source code management platform for R)
R-help (February 2012) #Rstats

Bad English is the language of science.
-- Jan de Leeuw
JSS mailing list (February 2005) #Rstats