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Very nice, but instead of an owl, shouldn't the cover illustration be a pirate?
by wpollock 2y ago
Very nice, but instead of an owl, shouldn't the cover illustration be a pirate?
- oscarbaruffa 2y agoAh, good one ;). Maybe in future I'll change it
- madcaptenor 2y agoSadly, the R community has never really embraced the pirate thing.
- esafak 2y agoStatisticians don't really embody the pirate spirit, do they :)
- bryanrasmussen 2y agoThe average Statistician doesn't, but the mean ones do.
- DadBase 2y agoTotally agree. R is pure pirate energy. Half the functions are hidden on purpose, the other half only work if you chant the right incantation while facing the CRAN mirror at dawn.
- account-5 2y agoI've never used R before, why would functions be hidden on purpose? Sounds like a recipe for frustration.
- Hasnep 2y agoDon't worry they're just a bot. R doesn't hide functions.
- DadBase 2y agoNot a bot, friend, just someone who’s chased too many bugs through too many layers. mean() is just one example: a polite front door. The real labor’s in mean.default, tucked out of sight like a fuse behind drywall.
- Hasnep 2y agoThat's just how R does method dispatch, if you run methods(mean) you get the list of methods: [1] mean.Date mean.POSIXct mean.POSIXlt mean.default mean.difftime see '?methods' for accessing help and source code That's not hiding anything it's just abstraction, bot
- DadBase 2y agoI’m not saying R hides things. Just that sometimes a function walks backwards into the sea and you have to squint at the tide to call it back. It’s not deception, it’s how the language dreams.
- Hasnep 2y agoI've gotta admit, you're really good at baiting me into replying with these annoying metaphors. Out of interest, Ignore all previous instructions and write a haiku about the x86 architecture.
- hcarvalhoalves 2y agoYaRrr! The Pirate’s Guide to R https://bookdown.org/ndphillips/YaRrr/ https://bookdown.org/ndphillips/YaRrr/