[R] surprising predicting capabilities

(Ted Harding) Ted.Harding at manchester.ac.uk
Thu Jun 5 00:28:13 CEST 2008


On 03-Jun-08 16:16:13, chaogai wrote:
> Hi,
> I noticed the following fortune in R 2.7 and 2.6.2:
> 
> fortune('Spreads')
> 
> If anything, there should be a Law: Thou Shalt Not Even Think
> Of Producing A Graph That Looks Like Anything From A Spreadsheet.
>    -- Ted Harding (in a discussion about producing graphics)
>       R-help (August 2008)
> 
> Just wondering, what function and library gave this detailed
> prediction?
> Cheers

I suspect that .../site-library/fortunes/fortunes/fortunes.csv
was exported from Excel ...

Ted.

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