Dear Rolf, Tukey put it nicely: "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." Inasmuch as there are no current fortunes from Tukey, I nominate this one.
Regards, John > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of Rolf Turner > Sent: March-08-09 4:06 PM > To: R help > Cc: Duncan Murdoch > Subject: Re: [R] popular R packages > > > On 9/03/2009, at 4:14 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > > ... analyzing bad data will just give bad conclusions. > > Fortune? > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > ###################################################################### > Attention:\ This e-mail message is privileged and confid...{{dropped:9}} > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.