On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Simon Blomberg <s.blombe...@uq.edu.au> wrote: >> "Some people familiar with R describe it as a supercharged version of >> Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet software..." > > Maybe it's my dry Australian humour, but I think this should go into the > fortunes package. >
The irony of that quote is great, but I'd guess it's also an effective bit of advertising. Akin to Gary Larson's famous "what dogs hear" cartoon (link below), I can envision many managers reading the article and seeing something like: "blah blah blah blah supercharged version of Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet software that can help illuminate data trends more clearly blah blah blah blah ...." ;-) Kingsford Jones http://www.flickr.com/photos/sluggerotoole/153603564/ > Simon. > -- > Simon Blomberg, BSc (Hons), PhD, MAppStat. > Lecturer and Consultant Statistician > Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences > The University of Queensland > St. Lucia Queensland 4072 > Australia > Room 320 Goddard Building (8) > T: +61 7 3365 2506 > http://www.uq.edu.au/~uqsblomb > email: S.Blomberg1_at_uq.edu.au > > Policies: > 1. I will NOT analyse your data for you. > 2. Your deadline is your problem. > > The combination of some data and an aching desire for > an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can > be extracted from a given body of data. - John Tukey. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
