Notices tagged with rstats, page 71

This is at best a matter of opinion, and credentials do matter for opinions.
-- Brian D. Ripley (in response to the claim that only 1.79e3 is printed with three significant digits whereas 1790 is not)
R-help (December 2006) #Rstats

lazy absolute values function with ALTREP and C++ https://link.rweekly.org/c85 #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

Careful now, or I'll get into a rant about how much you pay for ArcGIS and whether you are getting value for money if bugs become 'well-known'! Bugs in R tend to be either 'obscure' or 'fixed' :)
-- Barry Rowlingson (in response to a request for rgdal to work around a well-known bug in ArcGIS)
R-SIG-Geo (March 2012) #Rstats

Bert Gunter: However, I do not understand the substitute(...()) idiom. Would you care to explain it? (No is an acceptable answer!).
Bill Dunlap: I don't completely understand it either, I treat it as an idiom. I saw it on this list once.
-- Bert Gunter and Bill Dunlap (on how to recover object names when using the ... argument in a function)
R-help (October 2013) #Rstats

Rmd Files will No Longer be Rendered as Markdown on Github https://link.rweekly.org/c7c #rstats #datascience

Statistically Efficient Ways to Quantify Added Predictive Value of New Measurements https://link.rweekly.org/c7i #rstats #datascience

Maryland's Bridge Safety, reported using R https://link.rweekly.org/c7j #rstats #datascience

The Economist's Big Mac Index is calculated with R https://link.rweekly.org/c7g #rstats #datascience

Uwe Ligges: Please stop sending unsensible bug reports! Those have to be handled manually in the bug repository!
Barry Rowlingson: Really? They seem to be being handled automatically and frighteningly well by the Uwe-bot at the moment. Congratulations, you've passed the Turing Test.
-- Uwe Ligges and Barry Rowlingson (after several nonsensical mails to R-bugs)
R-devel (July 2004) #Rstats

I would heed the warnings and diagnostics. They are there for a reason. The Ostrich algorithm does not help you.
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel (in reply to a questioner who said he had not run R CMD check because he suspected other problems would be found)
Stackoverflow (November 2013) #Rstats

Maryland's Bridge Safety, reported using R https://link.rweekly.org/c6q #rstats #datascience

shinytest - Automated testing for Shiny apps https://link.rweekly.org/c6o #rstats #datascience

Also, that's what Martin Maechler told me and he wrote the code so I trust him on that. I figure that if you have to trust someone to be meticulous and precise then a German-speaking Swiss is a good choice.
-- Douglas Bates
R-help (January 2005) #Rstats

Trellis graphics are a bit like hash functions: you can be close to the target, but get a far-off result.
-- Dieter Menne (about problems with creating a suitable lattice panel function)
R-help (August 2008) #Rstats

ALTREP and C++ https://link.rweekly.org/c6n #rstats #datascience

Announcing RStudio Package Manager https://link.rweekly.org/c6m #rstats #datascience

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.
-- John W. Tukey (the first of six "basics" against statistician's hubrises)
in "Sunset Salvo", The American Statistician 40(1), 72-76 (February 1986) #Rstats

So, with the item in the original query:

if (x<-3) do_something;

if they wrote it as

if (x<(-3)) do_something;

there would be no problem (and no doubt about what went with what). Of course in complicated expressions this could induce an episode of ocular lispopia, but apart from that it's safe!
-- Ted Harding (about potential confusion between assignment and comparisons with negative numbers)
R-devel (August 2010) #Rstats

pubchunks: extract parts of scholarly XML articles https://link.rweekly.org/c6j #rstats #datascience