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1. 31.▲
   by noahnoahnoah 15y ago

   (I wrote the original post) There are tons of great third-party tools for data collection, and in some cases, you'll be hard pressed to come up with a better home-grown alternative (you probably won't write your own Google Analytics/Clicky/
2. 32.▲
   by noahnoahnoah 15y ago

   I'm not going to defend this particular set of code or analysis (it's not how I would have done it, and it's a bit silly to use R to wrap a bunch of python code), but the notion that you shouldn't use R for this out of hand is off to me, an
3. 33.▲
   by noahnoahnoah 15y ago

   I've always found this to be helpful for programmers coming from other languages: http://www.johndcook.com/R_language_for_programmers.html (not the author, just a fan)
4. 34.▲
   by noahnoahnoah 15y ago

   Yep, we agree. Well said.
5. 35.▲
   by noahnoahnoah 15y ago

   Survival analysis is definitely the right way to go for this. Some good resources in R: http://www.stat.ucdavis.edu/~hiwang/teaching/10fall/R_tutori... http://www.stat.ucdavis.edu/~hiwang/teaching/10fall/R_tutori... In particular, what