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BBC article about Brian Ripley of the #RStats Core team given this week's excellent news concerning 2026 Rousseeuw Price for Statistics recognition for him and the core team. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.comProf Brian Ripley on developing R to manage the world's dataProf Brian Ripley has spent the past three decades working on a computer software that analyses data.

Vincent Arel-Bundock

@vincentab.bsky.social

21 June

R or Excel?

Dirk Eddelbuettel

@eddelbuettel.com

`fortunes::fortune(59)` connects the two, also courtesy of BDR.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock

@vincentab.bsky.social

21 June

Solid quote. And I love that you can number-drop these.

Dirk Eddelbuettel

@eddelbuettel.com

21 June

There is a trick. Look them up in the csv, subtract one from the row number.

Achim Zeileis

@zeileis.org

21 June

Looking the numbers up in the package vignette is another possibility: vignette("fortunes", package = "fortunes") Other variations of the interface are shown in: examples("fortune", package = "fortunes")

Peter Dalgaard

@pdalgd.bsky.social

26 June

Or str(.Last.value) once you found what you were looking for.

Achim Zeileis

@zeileis.org

26 June

The vignette is now also available on a #Codeberg page: zeileis.codeberg.page/fortunes/col...

zeileis.codeberg.pageR Fortunes: Collected Wisdom – fortunesr format(Sys.Date())

Ben Bolker

@bbolker.bsky.social

21 June

fortunes::fortune("Excel") Some people familiar with R describe it as a supercharged version of Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet software. -- Ashlee Vance (in his article "Data Analysts Captivated by R's Power") The New York Times (January 2009) (among others)