first of all, thanks so much for your insight. regardless your bike skills, it is very inappropriate to compare riding bike with using r. in additionally, simply knowing R is very different from using it skillfully in production envirnment.
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Rolf Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > On 19/09/2008, at 5:01 PM, Wensui Liu wrote: > > Dear Listers, >> >> I've been a big fan of R since graduate school. After working in the >> industry for years, I haven't had many opportunities to use R and am >> mainly >> using SAS. >> > > My most extreme sympathies and condolences! > > However, I am still forcing myself really hard to stay close to R >> > > You have to *force* yourself??? > > by reading R-help and books and writing R code by myself for fun. But by >> and >> by, I start realizing I have hard time to keep up with R and am afraid >> that >> I would totally forget how to program in R. >> >> I really like it and am very unwilling to give it up. Is there any idea >> how >> I might keep touch with R without using it in work on daily basis? I >> really >> appreciate it. >> > > To me, using R is like riding a bicycle. Once you learn, you never > forget! > > Actually that comparison is inappropriate in my case; such are my > bicycling skills that I am much more likely to forget how to ride a > bicycle than I am to forget how to use R. > > Of course one forgets *details*. But those are just details. And > help.search() + RSiteSearch() will almost always recover those details > for you. If they don't, just ask R-help(), perhaps after putting on > your asbestos suit. > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > ###################################################################### > Attention:This e-mail message is privileged and confidential. If you are > not theintended recipient please delete the message and notify the > sender.Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author. > > This e-mail has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal > www.marshalsoftware.com > ###################################################################### > -- =============================== WenSui Liu Acquisition Risk, Chase Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog : statcompute.spaces.live.com =============================== [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.