Message-ID: <BANLkTikS35EzmmKzFBEweTrrV1ivCcRqoA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2011-05-18T23:47:04Z
From: Joshua Wiley
Subject: R Style Guide -- Was Post-hoc tests in MASS using glm.nb
In-Reply-To: <AA56C998-85A2-43AB-97D9-5F02DB81E4DC@gmail.com>
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Timothy Bates
<timothy.c.bates at gmail.com> wrote:
> lol:-)
> ?is there a way to get a fortune on start up in R?
You could require() and fortune() one in your .Rprofile
> On 19 May 2011, at 00:33, Rolf Turner wrote:
>
>>
>> On 19/05/11 10:26, Bill.Venables at csiro.au wrote:
>>
>> <SNIP>
>>> Most of [the Google style guide's] advice is very good (meaning I agree with it!) but some is a bit too much (for example, the blanket advice never to use S4 classes and methods - that's just resisting progress, in my view).
>> <SNIP>
>>
>> I must respectfully disagree with this view, and concur heartily with the style guide.
>> S4 classes and methods are a ball-and-chain that one has to drag along. ?See also
>> fortune("S4 methods"). :-)
>>
>> ? ?cheers,
>>
>> ? ? ? ?Rolf
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Joshua Wiley
Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology
University of California, Los Angeles
http://www.joshuawiley.com/