Rules of Thumb to Meet R Gurus in the Help List | /en/2010/04/rules-of-thumb-to-meet-r-gurus-in-the-help-list/

yihui 2022-12-16 18:20:19

Rules of Thumb to Meet R Gurus in the Help List

https://yihui.org/en/2010/04/rules-of-thumb-to-meet-r-gurus-in-the-help-list/

5 Comments

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 18:20:20

Guest *Tal Galili* @ 2010-04-06 01:14:33 originally posted:

Great read :D
Maybe one should do an analysis on the help mailing list to extract tag cloud of words used in threads a person took part in (but didn't start).
I wonder how that might be done.

Cheers,
Tal

yihui 2022-12-16 18:20:24

It is definitely possible. At least you can use the XML package to parse the HTML pages and record the data...

Originally posted on 2010-04-06 06:55:37

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 18:20:20

Guest *æ* @ 2010-08-17 23:51:40 originally posted:

this visualization is presented with kind support of hadley wickham... :D

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 18:20:21

Guest *YY* @ 2010-11-03 02:11:53 originally posted:

Well, as a student of Brian, I would prefer to say he is a rigorous and serious man.

yihui 2022-12-16 18:20:25

Agree. That's why ``Ripley'' is a verb in the R community -- he cares a lot about details and his patience is really amazing (these years he must have written the sentence "provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code" for thousands of times).

I envy you so much :-)

Originally posted on 2010-11-03 08:31:32

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 18:20:26

Guest *YY* @ 2010-11-03 16:12:30 originally posted:

This is true as he will comment on every word I am writing in my report, even the comma...
Anyway, r u using a MSN yihui? I have known you from cos.name for a long time but hardly have any chance to communicate with you.

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 18:20:27

Guest *yixuan* @ 2010-11-03 16:29:12 originally posted:

For yihui e-mail is everything. :-)

@yixuan

yihui 2022-12-16 18:20:28

Yixuan is right. I do not use MSN, and you can always reach me by email.

Originally posted on 2010-11-03 18:02:41

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 18:20:22

Guest *YY* @ 2010-11-03 21:42:27 originally posted:

that's great, is it: XIE@YIHUI.NAME?

yihui 2022-12-16 18:20:29

Right.

Originally posted on 2010-11-03 21:51:04

giscus-bot 2022-12-16 18:20:23

Guest *A.Jaber* @ 2013-07-10 03:40:15 originally posted:

hello
recently I am working on local linear quantile regression. I am facing a problem on how i can find out bandwidth selection using R code. I am wondering if any body can lend me hand?