On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, bill.venab...@csiro.au wrote:

But wait, there's more... The bit I think deserves a fortunes listing is the SAS jibe:

Yep, both added to the devel-version on R-Forge (fortunes 222 and 223). Additionally, there is

R> fortune(224)

It's interesting that SAS Institute feels that non-peer-reviewed software with hidden implementations of analytic methods that cannot be reproduced by others should be trusted when building aircraft engines.
   -- Frank Harrell (in response to the statement of the SAS director of
      technology product marketing: "We have customers who build engines
      for aircraft. I am happy they are not using freeware when I get on a
      jet.")
      R-help (January 2009)

grx,
Z

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