... which reminds me of Prof. Henry Higgins's comment in My Fair Lady in the song "Why can't the English" :
There even are places where English completely disappears. Why, in America, they haven't used it for years! Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA) <nord...@dshs.wa.gov> wrote: > Which is why England and the United States have been described as two > countries divided by a common language. (Could probably throw Scotland and > Australia, and others, into the mix as well ... notice the parethenses, or > nice round brackets, or ? :-} ) > > Dan > > Daniel Nordlund, PhD > Research and Data Analysis Division > Services & Enterprise Support Administration > Washington State Department of Social and Health Services > > > -----Original Message----- > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Dmitri Leybman > Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 3:28 PM > To: peter dalgaard > Cc: r-help@r-project.org; Martin Maechler > Subject: Re: [R] Make a box-whiskers plot in R with 5 variables, color coded. > > Not a problem at all. I figured the motley crue here couldn't be bracketed > into narrow categories. > > An apparent thesis demonstrated here would be that we all speak a slightly > different form of English. > > :) > > On Wednesday, December 16, 2015, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> > On 16 Dec 2015, at 17:42 , Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com >> <javascript:;>> wrote: >> > >> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com >> <javascript:;>> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Martin Maechler >> >> <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch <javascript:;>> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> [............] >> >>> >> >>>> You are missing the closing bracket on the boxplot() command. >> >>>> Just finish with a ')' >> >>> >> >>> Hmm... I once learned >> >>> >> >>> '()' =: parenthesis/es >> >>> '[]' =: bracket(s) >> >>> '{}' =: brace(s) >> >>> >> >>> Of course, I'm not a native English speaker, and my teacher(s) / >> >>> teaching material may have been biased ... but, as all three >> >>> symbol pairs play an important role in R, I think it would be >> >>> really really helpful, if we could agree on using the same >> >>> precise English here. >> >>> >> >>> I'm happy to re-learn, but I'd really like to end up with three >> >>> different simple English words, if possible. >> >>> (Yes, I know and have seen/heard "curly braces", "round >> >>> parentheses", ... but I'd hope we can do without the extra >> >>> adjective.) >> >> >> >> I think this is what Americans are taught, but I can never remember >> >> which is which. I use round brackets, square brackets, and squiggly >> >> brackets, which are memorable, and even if you're not familiar with >> >> the terms you can easily understand what I mean. >> > >> > I should mention that all three terms have accompanying arm motions >> > ;) >> > >> >> I just wonder whether the original poster managed to brace himself for >> the oncoming avalanche.... >> >> -pd >> >> > Hadley >> > >> > -- >> > http://had.co.nz/ >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > R-help@r-project.org <javascript:;> 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. >> >> -- >> Peter Dalgaard, Professor, >> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, >> 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark >> Phone: (+45)38153501 >> Office: A 4.23 >> Email: pd....@cbs.dk <javascript:;> Priv: pda...@gmail.com >> <javascript:;> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org <javascript:;> 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. >> > > > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
