Notices tagged with rstats, page 60

And the fear of getting Ripleyed on the mailing list also makes me think, read, and improve before submitting half baked questions to the list.
-- Eric Kort
R-help (January 2006) #Rstats

It's interesting that SAS Institute feels that non-peer-reviewed software with hidden implementations of analytic methods that cannot be reproduced by others should be trusted when building aircraft engines.
-- Frank Harrell (in response to the statement of the SAS director of technology product marketing: "We have customers who build engines for aircraft. I am happy they are not using freeware when I get on a jet.")
R-help (January 2009) #Rstats

linl 0.0.3: Micro release https://link.rweekly.org/chl #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

Advent of Code: Most Popular Languages https://link.rweekly.org/chj #rstats #datascience

Evelyn Hall: I would like to know how (if) I can extract some of the information from the summary of my nlme.
Simon Blomberg: This is R. There is no if. Only how.
-- Evelyn Hall and Simon 'Yoda' Blomberg
R-help (April 2005) #Rstats

Pdftools 2.0: powerful pdf text extraction tools https://link.rweekly.org/chh #rstats #datascience

Because it's Friday: CGI you never knew was CGI https://link.rweekly.org/chg #rstats #datascience

In case you missed it: November 2018 roundup https://link.rweekly.org/che #rstats #datascience

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

There are actual error messages, and until you show them, we can not help as the mind reading machine is currently off for repairs.
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel (after reports about errors with R CMD check)
R-help (July 2010) #Rstats

running plot [and simulated annealing] https://link.rweekly.org/chd #rstats #datascience

Twins on the up https://link.rweekly.org/chc #rstats #datascience

Solving #AdventOfCode day 5 and 6 with R https://link.rweekly.org/chb #rstats #datascience

Rsampling Fama French https://link.rweekly.org/cha #rstats #datascience

Reusable Pipelines in R https://link.rweekly.org/ch8 #rstats #datascience

Jim Gustafsson: I would like to put my SAS-code into R. Could I do that, if yes, how?
Frank Harrell: Just reverse the procedure you use when you put R code into SAS. ;)
-- Jim Gustafsson and Frank Harrell
R-help (February 2004) #Rstats

Most optimization problems have more than one answer, and the "wrong" ones often seem to be easier to find.
-- John C. Nash (about nonlinear optimization problems)
R-help (April 2013) #Rstats

How to deploy a predictive service to Kubernetes with R and the AzureContainers package https://link.rweekly.org/ch5 #rstats #datascience

Either I am misunderstanding your intent or you need another cup of coffee.
-- Rolf Turner (in response to a user who did not understand his advice)
R-help (November 2013) #Rstats