Message-ID: <C92BAE82.1421B%jari.oksanen@oulu.fi>
Date: 2010-12-13T09:05:38Z
From: Jari Oksanen
Subject: learning R
In-Reply-To: <4D05DFB0.8050804@sciviews.org>
On 13/12/10 10:56 AM, "Philippe Grosjean" <phgrosjean at sciviews.org> wrote:
> Ah! That is interesting!
>
...
>
> Otherwise, I am always amazed that people could use a metaphor like
> here, a reference to the shape of a curve on a graph, without even
> knowing what exactly are the X- and Y-axes. Shame on us!
Nothing to be ashamed of: We all know what is steep even if we cannot graph
it.
I just wonder why the other supposed "misuse" was completely ignored in this
thread: there are many things in R that are "begging the question" but
nobody dares to ask.
Cheers, Jari Oksanen