G. Jay Kerns wrote: > Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > > > > I am prompted to imagine someone pointing out to the volunteers of the > International Red Cross - on the field of a natural disaster, no less > - that their uniforms are not an acceptably consistent shade of > pink... or that the screws on their tourniquets do not have the > appropriate pitch as to minimize the friction for the turner... > >
not that it is very accurate, because unintuitive and confusing semantics may lead to hidden and dangerous errors in users' code. wrong shade of a uniform might lead to the person being shot, for example, but then your point vanishes. > As a practicing statistician I am simply thankful that the bleeding is > stopped. :-) > when it is stopped, not turned to an internal bleeding, which you simply don't see. > Cheers to R-Core (and the hundreds of other volunteers). > > absolutely. vQ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel