Notices tagged with rstats, page 62

Because it's Saturday: Go Your Own Way https://link.rweekly.org/cga #rstats #datascience

I think the amount of people on this list who understand your question is roughly zero.
-- Uwe Ligges (in response to a non-reproducible problem for which additionally subject and body did not match well)
R-help (January 2012) #Rstats

rnoaa: new data sources and NCDC units https://link.rweekly.org/cg9 #rstats #datascience

Statistics in Glaucoma: Part II https://link.rweekly.org/cg8 #rstats #datascience

Who is doing more with less? A look into Premier League performance and market value. https://link.rweekly.org/cg7 #rstats #datascience

It seems that you are facing a very serious fortune(122) problem.
-- Jean R. Lobry (in reply to a user that quickly needed help for his PhD thesis, without properly checking the documentation)
R-help (May 2006) #Rstats

To paraphrase provocatively, 'machine learning is statistics minus any checking of models and assumptions'.
-- Brian D. Ripley (about the difference between machine learning and statistics)
useR! 2004, Vienna (May 2004) #Rstats

Lastly, by what we could call the 'Liaw-Baron principle', every question that can be asked has in fact already been asked.
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel (citing Andy Liaw's and Jonathan Baron's opinion on unique questions on R-help)
R-help (January 2006) #Rstats

Basically R is reluctant to let you shoot yourself in the foot unless you are really determined to do so.
-- Bill Venables (about the warning hist() issues when being called with unequal interval widths and freq=TRUE)
R-help (May 2008) #Rstats

Gender Diversity in the R and Python Communities https://link.rweekly.org/cg0 #rstats #datascience

Solving #AdventOfCode day 3 and 4 with R https://link.rweekly.org/cfv #rstats #datascience

Bandwidth selection is an unresolved (and possibly unsolvable) problem in smoothing, so you're perfectly justified in trying/choosing an arbitrary value if it produces good pictures!
-- Adrian Baddeley (answering a user's question about the choice of smoothing parameter when using the density.ppp() function from the spatstat package)
private communication (March 2013) #Rstats

David Winsemius: Any of your staff can view the (open) source code just as any other member of the human race.
Uwe Ligges: I do not think the GPL excludes other species...
-- David Winsemius and Uwe Ligges (following a request for access to the R sources)
R-help (December 2011) #Rstats

Community Call - Governance strategies for open source research software projects https://link.rweekly.org/cfr #rstats #datascience

You need to get the hang of reading the online help. The information required is actually there in ?dotchart --- it's just tersely and obscurely expressed. A certain degree of optimism is required. You need to ***believe*** that the information is there; then ask yourself "What could they possibly mean by what they have written that would tell me what I need to know?".
-- Rolf Turner (on reading the help pages)
R-help (June 2013) #Rstats

This sounds like you have discovered homeopathic properties in Sweave! It will be serious if input files remember errors even after they have been removed.
-- Duncan Murdoch (after a user reported that two supposedly identical Rnw documents work and lead to an error, respectively)
R-help (January 2009) #Rstats

Detecting spatiotemporal groups in relocation data with spatsoc https://link.rweekly.org/cfp #rstats #datascience

Statistics in Glaucoma: Part I https://link.rweekly.org/cfo #rstats #datascience

Very Non-Standard Calling in R https://link.rweekly.org/cfn #rstats #datascience

Making a Profit with Henry Wan in Arkham Horror: The Card Game https://link.rweekly.org/cfm #rstats #datascience