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tinkr: edit (R )Markdown files with XML tools https://link.rweekly.org/bv7 #rstats #datascience

R Weekly 2018-40 Animating, Arrow, Tables https://link.rweekly.org/bv6 #rstats #datascience

I believe functions should do what they say on the box (and the help page), and not what some user hopes they might do by mind-reading.
-- Brian D. Ripley
R-help (November 2004) #Rstats

Manifold Visualization: Polynomials to the Rescue https://link.rweekly.org/bv4 #rstats #datascience

nanotime 0.2.3 https://link.rweekly.org/buc #rstats #datascience

The issue really comes down to the fact that the questions: "exactly normal?", and "normal enough?" are 2 very different questions (with the difference becoming greater with increased sample size) and while the first is the easier to answer, the second is generally the more useful one.
-- Greg Snow (answering a question about a "normality test" suitable for large data)
R-help (April 2009) #Rstats

[...] (damn... my shift key just broke as well...)
bill venables.
-- Bill Venables (answering a message that lacked upper case letters)
R-help (April 2005) #Rstats

RcppAPT 0.0.5 https://link.rweekly.org/bu8 #rstats #datascience

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

Well, the biggest room in the world is the room for improvement :)
-- Soren Hojsgaard ( in reply to a suggestion to make pbkrtest and lme4 more robust)
R-SIG-Mixed-Models (August 2013) #Rstats

CRAN Policy Change new rev3923 https://link.rweekly.org/btm #rstats #datascience

XKCD "Curve Fitting", in R https://link.rweekly.org/btk #rstats #datascience

It really is hard to anticipate just how silly users can be.
-- Brian D. Ripley
R-devel (October 2003) #Rstats

Quick Hit: Using the New Equal Earth Projection in R https://link.rweekly.org/bth #rstats #datascience

This is a bit like asking how should I tweak my sailboat so I can explore the ocean floor.
-- Roger Koenker (in response to a question about tweaking the quantreg package to handle probit and heckit models)
R-help (May 2013) #Rstats

binb 0.0.2: Now with presento https://link.rweekly.org/btb #rstats #datascience

It is unusual for the actual data not to be available in real problems.
-- Brian D. Ripley (in reply to a question how to fit a distribution if not the data but only their histogram is available)
R-help (June 2006) #Rstats

3-D shadow maps in R: the rayshader package https://link.rweekly.org/bt7 #rstats #datascience

August 2018: Top 40 New Packages https://link.rweekly.org/bt6 #rstats #datascience

Sri Lanka visitor arrivals by @ellis2013nz https://link.rweekly.org/bt4 #rstats #datascience