Notices tagged with rstats, page 8

Have you ever wanted to write a book, but not known where to start? Now is a very good time to jump in, because there is currently a very simple recipe for success: just put R in the title and you will have to beat the publishers off with a stick!
-- Paul Murrell
ASA Statistical Computing & Graphics Newsletter 17(2) (November 2006) #Rstats

My solution when I run into mysteries like this is to put 'browser()' in the function just before or after the line of interest. The magnitude and direction of my stupidity usually become clear quickly.
-- Patrick Burns
R-help (February 2006) #Rstats

Personally I have never regretted trying not to underestimate my own future stupidity.
-- Greg Snow (explaining why eval(parse(...)) is often suboptimal, answering a question triggered by the infamous fortune(106))
R-help (January 2007) #Rstats

Ooops, that was answering the question you actually asked. The one you meant to ask is answered by this part:
The sort order for character vectors will depend on the collating sequence of the locale in use: see Comparison.
-- Peter Dalgaard (demonstrating his mind-reading skills when answering questions about sorting characters)
R-help (March 2016) #Rstats

In that flash of darkness he heard people saying - he was a failure - that R was beyond him.
-- Virginia Woolf
To The Lighthouse (May 1927) #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

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

Can one be a good data analyst without being a half-good programmer? The short answer to that is, 'No.' The long answer to that is, 'No.'
-- Frank Harrell
1999 S-PLUS User Conference, New Orleans (October 1999) #Rstats

Awkwardly worded questions will get much better answers if they are accompanied by some test data.
-- David Winsemius (in response to a poster's apology for an 'awkwardly worded question')
R-help (September 2012) #Rstats

What's in a #Mastodon name...
#Rstats
https://mastodon.cloud/media/AGuqfM1qv9txO9YOsko

#Mastodon Top Level Domains
#Rstats
https://mastodon.cloud/media/pW_mY_X46aP8RY80B6I

#Mastodon instances and users
#Rstats
https://mastodon.cloud/media/1vGhXI8TV-4o-_EB-vM

memory problems (not me. my pc!)
-- Sara Mouro (subject line for an R-help request)
R-help (January 2008) #Rstats

I think, therefore I R.
-- William B. King (in his R tutorials)
http://ww2.coastal.edu/kingw/statistics/R-tutorials/ (July 2010) #Rstats

Obviously I have not tested on an Alphabc...tuvwxyz system but it should work there.
-- Brian D. Ripley (after fixing a problem discovered when compiling R 2.0.0 on Linux Alpha)
R-devel (October 2004) #Rstats

Teach a man to fish, and he'll use StackOverflow for a day. Give him a fish, and he'll use StackOverflow for a lifetime of free fish.
-- Joshua Ulrich (about pointing to R documentation on StackOverflow)
stackoverflow.com (May 2016) #Rstats

One of the beauties of S and R is the syntax closeness to mathematical notation. Many of us know that Lisp has beauties that S can never have, but that's really in different beauty-space.
-- Martin Maechler
R-devel (February 2009) #Rstats

The job of computer output, in my view, is to be as informative as possible while keeping the output as terse as possible.
-- John Maindonald
R-SIG-Mixed-Models (June 2013) #Rstats

The Huli of Papua New Guinea use '15' to mean a very large number and '15 times 15 samting (something)' to mean something close to infinity.
-- David Whiting (in a discussion about trying to estimate the number of R users)
R-help (April 2004) #Rstats

Warning: Although abusing R was not proved to be addictive, it should be noted that it often leads to harder stuff.
-- Ivan Mizera (self-confessed abuseR)
useR! 2006, Vienna (June 2006) #Rstats