[R] how to input a string without quote
hadley wickham
h.wickham at gmail.com
Sun Nov 30 19:10:44 CET 2008
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Carl Witthoft <carl at witthoft.com> wrote:
> "From: Yihui Xie <xieyihui_at_gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:32:35 +0800
>
> Wow, you are so lazy... But sometimes R is just designed for lazy guys... "
>
>
> Yeah, well, laziness is the mother of creativity :-) .
> But seriously: I know far too many engineers who plug madly away for
> hours/days on end, where I would just stop, take a breath, figure out a
> method or mini-algorithm, and get the job done quick and easy. That's what
> R is for.
"We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a
programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris."
Larry Wall, Programming Perl
Hadley
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