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Irregular comments on R, visualization and statistical computing

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    I just uploaded version 0.6 of docopt to CRAN, which was long overdue. Docopt is a R package that helps in parsing command-line options of a R-script. The beauty of docopt is that it uses the help text (i.

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  • Improving Anscombe's quartet

    I’m a fan of Anscombe’s Quartet. As much as I like it, it has a teaching problem, so let’s try to improve upon this great data set. As intended by its creator Francis Anscombe, the quartet shows that you should never, never (did I forget to say “never”?

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