"R longa, vita brevis."
On Thu, 29 Sept 2022 at 07:02, Berry, Charles
wrote:
> Aha!
> CCB
>
> > On Sep 27, 2022, at 6:08 PM, Rolf Turner
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Sep 2022 11:14:57 +0800
> > Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
> >
> >> Subject: How long does it take to learn the R pro
A minute to learn, a lifetime to master? -- H
On Wed, 28 Sept 2022 at 11:03, Berry, Charles
wrote:
> Aha!
> CCB
>
> > On Sep 27, 2022, at 6:08 PM, Rolf Turner
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Sep 2022 11:14:57 +0800
> > Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
> >
> >> Subject: How long does it t
Aha!
CCB
> On Sep 27, 2022, at 6:08 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Sep 2022 11:14:57 +0800
> Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
>
>> Subject: How long does it take to learn the R programming language?
>>
>> Good day from Singapore,
>>
>> How long does it take to learn the R pro
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From: "John Kane"
To: "David Winsemius"
Cc: "R. Help Mailing List"
Sent: Saturday, 25 July, 2020 02:55:34
Subject: Re: [R] Fortune nomination Re: Looping through a dataframe
Yes I think so.
On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 20:53, David Winse
channel or open port for nominations despite a bit of searching.
TIA and very best to all,
Chris
- Original Message -
> From: "John Kane"
> To: "David Winsemius"
> Cc: "R. Help Mailing List"
> Sent: Saturday, 25 July, 2020 02:55:34
> Subject
Yes I think so.
On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 20:53, David Winsemius
wrote:
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> On 7/21/20 2:31 PM, Jim Lemon wrote:
> > I want to get a total for the number of years of data for each
> company. When I loop through the data
>
> After two one liners using `table`:
> > I'm too lazy to provide a di
On 7/21/20 2:31 PM, Jim Lemon wrote:
I want to get a total for the number of years of data for each company. When
I loop through the data
After two one liners using `table`:
I'm too lazy to provide a difficult way.
Jim
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On 2020-06-15 9:26 a.m., Martin Maechler wrote:
> It allows you to smell the true original fresh air if you
> want instead of having to breathe continuously being wrapped
> inside sugar candy.
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> On Dec 13, 2018, at 11:12 AM, David L Carlson wrote:
>
> You need Santa Claus not r-help. You haven't given us a fraction of the
> information we would need to help. You don't
On 1/27/2018 12:16 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
John (to a serial querulant):
...but with such a sweeping lack of
information from you, don't congratulate yourself if you get a helpful
answer. It wasn't your fault.
David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA
Second that nomination!
'Any technolog
On Sat, 27 Jan 2018, David Winsemius wrote:
John (to a serial querulant):
...but with such a sweeping lack of information from you, don't
congratulate yourself if you get a helpful answer. It wasn't your fault.
Looks like what H.L. Menken or P.G. Wodehouse would have written.
Rich
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John (to a serial querulant):
...but with such a sweeping lack of
information from you, don't congratulate yourself if you get a helpful
answer. It wasn't your fault.
David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA
'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.'
-Gehm's Corol
On Sun, 17 Dec 2017, J C Nash wrote:
From Dirk E. on the R-devel list
Many things a developer / power-user would do are very difficult on
Windows. It is one of the charms of the platform. On the other hand you do
get a few solitaire games so I guess everybody is happy.
Thanks, added to the d
>From Dirk E. on the R-devel list
> Many things a developer / power-user would do are very difficult on
> Windows. It is one of the charms of the platform. On the other hand you do
> get a few solitaire games so I guess everybody is happy.
JN
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Thanks, Sarah, added now in the devel-package on R-Forge.
Z
On Tue, 31 May 2016, Sarah Goslee wrote:
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Jeff Newmiller
wrote:
However, please don't apply R like a magic answers box, because you can mislead
others and cause harm.
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Jeff Newmiller
wrote:
>
>
> However, please don't apply R like a magic answers box, because you can
> mislead others and cause harm.
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On Thu, 26 May 2016, Michael Dewey wrote:
In a reply Duncan said
Nice, thanks, added to the "fortunes" package on R-Forge now.
Best,
Z
On 26/05/2016 16:12, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 26/05/2016 11:03 AM, Óscar Jiménez wrote:
You should try things; R won't break.
Duncan Murdoch
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In a reply Duncan said
On 26/05/2016 16:12, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 26/05/2016 11:03 AM, Óscar Jiménez wrote:
You should try things; R won't break.
Duncan Murdoch
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On Jun 24, 2014, at 7:52 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
Jeff Newmiller's rhelp/ggplot strategy checklist:
> Reproducibility == good (except for mixing in invalid code and failing to set
> RNG seed)
> HTML email == bad
> Missing subject == bad
> Using matrices with ggplot == pushing a rope
> Using fo
Fortune?
Where did lost variables go, with example
Sent from my iPhone
> On Dec 31, 2013, at 7:36 PM, "David Parkhurst "
> wrote:
>
> Thank you. I've tried what you're suggesting, at an earlier suggestion
> from another respondent, and I don't find my variable in any of lists
> ls() through
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013, Ted Harding wrote:
[See in-line below]
On 17-Nov-2013 22:38:30 Rolf Turner wrote:
(1) The backslashes are not really there; they are an artefact of the R
print() function.
Try cat(u,"\n"). I think this might be an FAQ.
(2) Is not your problem the fact that your are setti
[See in-line below]
On 17-Nov-2013 22:38:30 Rolf Turner wrote:
>
> (1) The backslashes are not really there; they are an artefact of the R
> print() function.
> Try cat(u,"\n"). I think this might be an FAQ.
>
> (2) Is not your problem the fact that your are setting "replacement"
> equal to th
On Sat, 19 Oct 2013, Michael Dewey wrote:
At 19:05 18/10/2013, William Dunlap wrote:
> However, I do not understand the
>substitute(...())
> idiom. Would you care to explain it? (No is an acceptable answer!).
I don't completely understand it either, I treat it as an idiom. I saw it
on t
At 19:05 18/10/2013, William Dunlap wrote:
> However, I do not understand the
>substitute(...())
> idiom. Would you care to explain it? (No is an acceptable answer!).
I don't completely understand it either, I treat it as an idiom. I
saw it on this list once.
Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 3:36 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
>>
>> On May 3, 2013, at 17:24 , jpm miao wrote:
>>
>>> I have a program, when I write
>>>
>>> if(num!=NA)
>>>
>> snipped
>
> On May 3, 2013, at 10:46 AM, peter dalgaard wrote:
>
>> Because comparison with an unknown value yields an unknown re
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Bert Gunter wrote:
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:01 AM, David Winsemius wrote:
(In response to an OP's aplogy for an "awkwardly worded question"):
Awkwardly worded questions will get much better answers if they are accompanied
by some test data.
Fortune nomination!
Yes,
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:01 AM, David Winsemius wrote:
(In response to an OP's aplogy for an "awkwardly worded question"):
> Awkwardly worded questions will get much better answers if they are
> accompanied by some test data.
Fortune nomination!
Cheers,
Bert
> --
> David Winsemius, MD
> Ala
I would like to nominate the following quote from a posting to R-sig-Geo
by Roger Bivand as a fortune:
Some OSX users know that OSX is really Unix [...]; others think that
OSX is cooler
Windows, and they have ontological problems with non-Apple phenomena
and constructs.
cheers,
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Bert Gunter wrote:
Folks:
I thought John Nash's comment below was profound and a possible
Fortunes candidate:
(Aside: I believe it applies to a great deal of what is discussed on
this list, not just stochastic optimization.)
Thanks for the pointer, very true indeed - and
Folks:
I thought John Nash's comment below was profound and a possible
Fortunes candidate:
(Aside: I believe it applies to a great deal of what is discussed on
this list, not just stochastic optimization.)
Cheers,
Bert
... (in the context of stochastic optimization)
>... As with many tools in t
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 15 January 2011 at 11:29, Carl Witthoft wrote:
|
| Somehow this reminds me of a famous FORTRAN code snippet:
|
| 10 STOP
| STOP
| STOP
| ! IN CASE STILL SKIDDING
| GOTO 10
Immediate candidate for the fortunes package!
Thx, added on R-Forge.
Z
On 15 January 2011 at 11:29, Carl Witthoft wrote:
|
| Somehow this reminds me of a famous FORTRAN code snippet:
|
| 10 STOP
| STOP
| STOP
| ! IN CASE STILL SKIDDING
| GOTO 10
Immediate candidate for the fortunes package!
Dirk
|
| From: Marius Hofert
| Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 09:09:20 +010
Bert,
thanks for the pointer, added to the devel version of "fortunes" on
R-Forge.
thx,
Z
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010, Bert Gunter wrote:
"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
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Bert Gunter wrote:
> "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
"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
you
On 2/23/2010 5:07 AM, Cedrick Johnson wrote:
library(rant)
I'm sorry: I'm not familiar with the "rant" package. I couldn't find
it on CRAN.
I recall just over a year ago (Fall08) when I was new to the R
language. I realize there's a steep curve in any language, especially
with R and the m
library(rant)
I recall just over a year ago (Fall08) when I was new to the R
language. I realize there's a steep curve in any language, especially
with R and the multitudes of packages that exist.
With that being said, I still took (still do) time out to read the
manuals, the vignettes and perfor
Hi
r-help-boun...@r-project.org napsal dne 23.02.2010 05:50:25:
>I have a concern with the sentiment expressed: When one is new
> to a language, it is often not easy to know where to start in the
> available documentation. It's hard to RTFM when one does not know which
> FM2R.
>
>
I have a concern with the sentiment expressed: When one is new
to a language, it is often not easy to know where to start in the
available documentation. It's hard to RTFM when one does not know which
FM2R.
I currently subscribe to email help for three other open source
collabo
Thanks for the pointer, Detlef, added to the devel-version on R-Forge.
Z
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Detlef Steuer wrote:
One vote goes to Dave's answer!
You made (saved) my day
detlef
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:07:23 +
"Dr. David Kirkby" wrote:
chinna wrote:
hi everyone,
i am new to R project
One vote goes to Dave's answer!
You made (saved) my day
detlef
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:07:23 +
"Dr. David Kirkby" wrote:
> chinna wrote:
> > hi everyone,
> > i am new to R project can anyone please help me by providing documents
> >
> > my goal is using R i have to connect to the datab
Dear list,
I'm not so familiar with the internals of the fortunes package, but I
really like the interface. I was wondering if someone had implemented
a similar functionality to parse the entries of the R FAQ <
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html >. Say, if I was to
answer a question "Wh
Rolf Turner wrote:
...
To paraphrase Eric Blair: ``SAS-thinkers unbellyfeel R-speak.''
cheers,
Rolf Turner
This *has* to be a fortune.
Pat
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Ben Bolker wrote (to the r-sig-mixed-models list):
I still don't know what to do about the compromise between
how statistics should be done and how journal editors seem
to insist it should be done ...
This seems to me to be worthy of being included as a fortune.
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 12/17/2007 10:50 AM, Richard M. Heiberger wrote:
> > fortune("help") ## or any quoted string
> >
> > gives a warning
> > Warning message:
> > In grep(which, fort, useBytes = TRUE) :
> > argument 'useBytes = TRUE' will be ignored
> >
> > in version
On 12/17/2007 10:50 AM, Richard M. Heiberger wrote:
> fortune("help") ## or any quoted string
>
> gives a warning
> Warning message:
> In grep(which, fort, useBytes = TRUE) :
> argument 'useBytes = TRUE' will be ignored
>
> in version.string R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26)
This is a problem in a
fortune("help") ## or any quoted string
gives a warning
Warning message:
In grep(which, fort, useBytes = TRUE) :
argument 'useBytes = TRUE' will be ignored
in version.string R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26)
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