Many languages develop a culture which serves as a pillar and guide for its use and development. Few examples include Python and R. A very cool and fun tool I loved in R was fortunes: R Fortunes. I believe as we approach 1.0, it would be ideal to start collecting these fortunes that speak to the language and its community. A few sources could be Discurse, Github Repo’s, and Slack channels.
For those unfamiliar with the concept, basically one can get random fortunes such as:
This is a bit like asking how should I tweak my sailboat so I can explore the
ocean floor.
-- Roger Koenker (in response to a question about tweaking the quantreg
package to handle probit and heckit models)
R-help (May 2013)
Jesus and the rest of the R-help community: Thanks for your help.
-- Mike Saunders (after Jesus Frias answered his question about
split-split plots)
R-help (February 2005)
Byron Ellis: If we wanted to be truly radical we'd just accept that graphics
devices and event loops are just special cases of the connection and merge
the whole thing, thus more-or-less reinventing CLIM. :-)
Anthony Rossini: Eventually, all programming languages grow up and become
Lisp. (progress, progress, and more joyful progress on CLS).
Byron Ellis: Untrue! They may also become Smalltalk :-)
-- Byron Ellis and Anthony Rossini
R-devel (December 2005)
Robin Hankin: I'd say that without a tool like R you cannot learn statistics.
David Whiting: I believe Fisher and a few others managed to get by without it.
Peter Dalgaard: But think how far they could have got with R!
-- Robin Hankin, David Whiting, and Peter Dalgaard (on teaching/learning
statistics with R)
R-help (December 2004)
Bug, undocumented behaviour, feature? I don't know. It all seems to work in
1.6.0, so everyone should downgrade now... :)
-- Barry Rowlingson
R-help (July 2003)
For almost 40 years SAS has been the primary tool for statisticians worldwide
and its easy-to-learn syntax, unsurpassed graphical system, powerful macro
language and recent graphical user interfaces have made SAS the number one
statistical software choice for both beginners and advanced users.
-- Rolf Poalis, Biostatistics Denmark (announcement of the SAS to R parser
sas2R)
R-help (April 1, 2004)
Douglas Bates: If you really want to be cautious you could use an octal
representation like sep="\\007" to get a character that is very unlikely to
occur in a factor level.
Ed L. Cashin: I definitely want to be cautious. Instead of the bell character
I think I'll use the field separator character, "\\034", just because this is
the first time I've been able to use it for it's intended purpose! ;)
Douglas Bates: Yes, but with "\\034" you don't get to make obscure James Bond
references :-)
-- Douglas Bates and Ed L. Cashin
R-help (April 2004)
I know barely more than zero about R: until yesterday I didn't know how to
spell it.
-- Pete Wilson
stackoverflow (October 2011)
I think, therefore I R.
-- William B. King (in his R tutorials)
http://ww2.coastal.edu/kingw/statistics/R-tutorials/ (July 2010)
In real life, be very careful before denigrating a child to its mother or
father... so calling a something a bug in R which is none, is evoking
feelings among R's parents... ;-)
-- Martin Maechler (after a package author reported a bug in R that was
actually a bug in his own code)
R-devel (May 2015)
Teach a man to fish, and he'll use StackOverflow for a day. Give him a fish,
and he'll use StackOverflow for a lifetime of free fish.
-- Joshua Ulrich (about pointing to R documentation on StackOverflow)
stackoverflow.com (May 2016)