On Mon, 3 May 2021 12:42:30 +1200 Abbs Spurdle <spurdl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Previously, I disliked some of R's names. > e.g. Action of the Toes. > But then later realized toes are really important. > > I don't want to disagree with a 'reviewer'. > But I would say subtle references to literature and philosophy > demonstrate 'depth'. Well, I thought so too. :-) OTOH I recognise that I have a tendency to be flippant, and perhaps it is just as well to curb this tendency. > Was your reviewer a member of the (A)merican (S)tatistical > (S)ociety...? Who came up with that name...? Isn't it called the 'American Statistical *Association*"? (Presumably just so as to avoid that unfortunate acronym.) I of course have no idea who the (anonymous) reviewer is. > It's all subjective really... Or a matter of taste. And (as my late older brother was fond of saying) there is no accounting for taste, or the lack thereof. :-) cheers, Rolf -- Honorary Research Fellow Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
