[R] surprising predicting capabilities

2008-06-03 Thread chaogai
Hi,

I noticed the following fortune in R 2.7 and 2.6.2:

fortune('Spreads')

If anything, there should be a Law: Thou Shalt Not Even Think Of Producing A
Graph That Looks Like Anything From A Spreadsheet.
   -- Ted Harding (in a discussion about producing graphics)
  R-help (August 2008)


Just wondering, what function and library gave this detailed prediction?

Cheers

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Re: [R] surprising predicting capabilities

2008-06-03 Thread Greg Snow
That is actually from August 2007 (typo in the fortunes package).

If you do

> RSiteSearch('Thou Shalt Not Even Think Graph Spreadsheet')

Then it will bring up the actual post and you can read it in context (along 
with the posts that lead to it and those that followed).

Basically, Ted was trying to shorten my soapbox without knocking me off of it 
after I replied to someone who wanted to add the values to a barchart like a 
particular spreadsheet.

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Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
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>
> Hi,
>
> I noticed the following fortune in R 2.7 and 2.6.2:
>
> fortune('Spreads')
>
> If anything, there should be a Law: Thou Shalt Not Even Think
> Of Producing A Graph That Looks Like Anything From A Spreadsheet.
>-- Ted Harding (in a discussion about producing graphics)
>   R-help (August 2008)
>
>
> Just wondering, what function and library gave this detailed
> prediction?
>
> Cheers
>
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Re: [R] surprising predicting capabilities

2008-06-04 Thread Ted Harding
On 03-Jun-08 16:16:13, chaogai wrote:
> Hi,
> I noticed the following fortune in R 2.7 and 2.6.2:
> 
> fortune('Spreads')
> 
> If anything, there should be a Law: Thou Shalt Not Even Think
> Of Producing A Graph That Looks Like Anything From A Spreadsheet.
>-- Ted Harding (in a discussion about producing graphics)
>   R-help (August 2008)
> 
> Just wondering, what function and library gave this detailed
> prediction?
> Cheers

I suspect that .../site-library/fortunes/fortunes/fortunes.csv
was exported from Excel ...

Ted.


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