Notices tagged with rstats, page 9

Seldom are prizes, credit, and gratitude given, else Brian would be drowning in them.
-- Anthony Rossini (about the merits of implementing software)
R-help (May 2004) #Rstats

Contrary to popular belief the speed of R's interpreter is rarely the limiting factor to R's speed. People treating R like C is typically the limiting factor. You have vector operations, USE THEM.
-- Byron Ellis
R-help (October 2005) #Rstats

You need to prepare your students for the future, not the past.
-- Spencer Graves (making a case for using R in academia)
R-help (November 2006) #Rstats

Gustaf Rydevik: The author also has some thought-provoking opinions on R being no-good and that you should write everything in C.
Paul Gilbert: People used to say assembler, that's progress.
-- Gustaf Rydevik and Paul Gilbert (in a discussion about an 'R is slow' blog post)
R-help (January 2008) #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

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

I think we can reject the null hypothesis of "Dirk can type" at all convential significance levels.
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel (after several users including himself had misspelled Ubuntu as Umbutu or Ubunto)
R-help (April 2005) #Rstats

On average, any data manipulation that can be described in a sentence or two of English can be programmed in one line in R. If you find yourself writing a long 'for' loop to do something that sounds simple, take a step back and research if an existing combination of functions can easily handle your request.
-- Erik Iverson
R-help (June 2010) #Rstats

Your example requires all choices of 1541 out of 3000, which I would expect to take somewhere near age-of-the-universe seconds to compute. The code uses a clever nested computation due to Gail et al which will cut that time down to infinity/10.
-- Terry Therneau (on an example with exact computations in coxph)
R-help (June 2016) #Rstats

I'll go back to lurking in the daily R-Helps and not ask any more questions until I've read all the old R-help messages. I'm working on December 1998 right now and reading forward. Perhaps by next year I'll will have read all the old R-help postings and I'll dare ask another question then.
-- Earl F. Glynn
R-help (January 2012) #Rstats

I quit using SAS in 1991 because my productivity jumped at least 20% within one month of using S-Plus.
-- Frank Harrell
R-help (November 2003) #Rstats

Michael Watson: Hopefully this one isn't in the manual or I am about to get shot :-S
Peter Dalgaard: *Kapow*...
-- Michael Watson and Peter Dalgaard (question on axis())
R-help (February 2006) #Rstats

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

Basically, you are calling .Internal from the command line. It is not designed to be called from there and only wizards know what happens if it is. (The set of wizards who might know whether it makes any sense at all does not include me!)
-- Peter Dalgaard
R-devel (May 2014) #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

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

It's not a question of trying variations, rather of following instructions.
-- Brian D. Ripley (about using 'Writing R Extensions')
R-help (January 2006) #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

Dave Lubbers: R 2.7.2 - the manual says configure, make, which is what I did. So I did read the manual and followed the directions. The manual is too terse to get me there.
Duncan Murdoch: You used the wrong tense. In referring to R 2.7.2, only past tenses are grammatically correct. If you want to say "the manual *is* too terse", then you need to install R 2.11.0.
-- Dave Lubbers and Duncan Murdoch (on where to find libRmath)
R-devel (May 2010) #Rstats

/* some real insanity to keep Duncan sane */
-- Luke Tierney
in src/main/context.c (June 2001) #Rstats