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Is anyone in the leadership of the R-project going to contact the New York Times and clarify that the article gave remarkably short shrift to the people who designed the user interface for R, to a large extent AT&T researchers from an earlier generation? It would be the appropriate thing to do. The R team did not develop the user interface for R, the designers of the S programming language

Why does the R mailing list need such an unusual and customized user interface? Last January, I figured out how to read Usenet mailing lists ( or Usenet groups ) and they all pretty much work the same, learn to use one, you've learned to use them all ( gnu.misc.discuss , comp.lang.lisp , and so on ). What's the best way to view and read discussions in this group for recent days? Can I

A number of people are having the same problem as me, when you post as a response to an ongoing thread, in place of your message, the following message appears: An embedded & charset-unspecified text was scrubbed ... and a link is given that leads to the desired message. It's better than nothing , but it sure is annoying, and some readers will skip it instead of doing the extra link.

That may sound like a stupid question, but if it confuses me, I'm sure it confuses others as well. I've tried to find that information on the R mail-group info pages, can't seem to find it. Is it something obvious? To begin a brand new discussion, you do your post as an e-mail sent to r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch . As I am doing right now. How do I do an additional post that gets

As noted on the R-project web site itself ( www.r-project.org -> Manuals -> R Data Import/Export ), it can be cumbersome to prepare messy and dirty data for analysis with the R tool itself. I've also seen at least one S programming book (one of the yellow Springer ones) that says, more briefly, the same thing. The R Data Import/Export page recommends examples using SAS, Perl, Python, and

In response to those who asked for a better explanation of what the Vilno software does, here's a simple example that gives some idea of what it does. LABRESULTS is a dataset with multiple rows per patient , with lab sodium measurements. It has columns: PATIENT_ID, VISIT_NUM, and SODIUM. DEMO is a dataset with one row per patient, with demographic data. It has columns: PATIENT_ID, GENDER.

In clinical trial data preparation and many other data situations, the statistical programmer needs to merge and re-merge multiple input files countless times. A syntax for merging files that is clear and concise is very important for the statistical programmer's productivity. Here is how Vilno does it: inlist dataset1 dataset2 dataset3 ; joinby variable1 variable2 where ( var3<=var4 ) ;

A graph != A table. I'm talking about a page full of summary statistics and advanced statistics, with lots of cross categories on the top and left margin of the table, as opposed to a visual display with x-axis and y-axis, which is totally different. (An example of how this is done in another language is available at http://fivetimesfaster.blogspot.com ) For an AE table, you have an N and %

Ashlee Vance's article on R in the New York Times. This is typical of the New York Times. Because they get to coast on the prestige and reputation of their brand , they have a history of just this sort of journalistic sloppiness. Whether it's the author or the editor at fault doesn't really matter, they do this screw-up all the time. Look, if you write an article on the first page of

...the NY Times blog mentioned by David Smith, > specifically mentioning John, Rick and Allan. (Now awaiting moderation.) > Of course there are many others deserving credit but far to numerous to > list so I didn't get started. > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Robert Wilkins <irishhacker@gmail.com > >wrote: > > Is anyone in the leadership of the R-project going to contact the New > > York Times and clarify that the article gave remarkably short shrift > > to the people who designed the user interface for R, to a large extent > > AT&T researchers fr...

Hello All, Here is the requested information. Most of it was on the original post for the "Tools For Preparing Data For Analysis" thread from last week, but it got overlooked. They are all given under an open source license. Check 'em out! ******************************************************* Vilno: data transformation software, that reads in input datasets (rows and columns),

Hi, Where can I find information ( freely available on the Internet , and also books or other sources ) on how having sampling weights changes the calculation of the standard error (of means and proportions)? How good is R for this type of procedure? And SAS? thanks Robert [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

It does look like Gentleman and Ihaka not only lied to the New York Times, but also to the New Zealand Herald and who knows who else. This is disgusting. The R programming language is the S programming language, and Gentleman and Ihaka are not the ones who designed it. http://thenewyorktimesissloppy.blogspot.com/