Nathaniel D Phillips

@meanderingexile Thanks! Getting it past some obscure issues on CRAN servers I could not replicate on my machine was a real pain!

realized this week that @YaRrrBook's FFTrees library is back on CRAN! Computational tools for building heuristics are rare, so great to see it again

@MarianinaRakka @CedScherer @_psyguy @patilindrajeets "I don't want to hide my data. I want you (reviewer) and readers to be able to quickly determine whether or not my data violate critical assumptions. I believe a plot will do this better than an obscure test (or no test at all). I can include a detailed description in a footnote"

@CedScherer @_psyguy @patilindrajeets @YaRrrBook Any tips for those who want to use these plots in biological studies but struggle as reviewers are used to seeing simple barplots? Most reviewers won´t understand the jittered points, get confused because the density plot has no y axis and find them "unecessarily complicated" 😔

That moment when you review a journal submission and you see dynamite plots: rage and joy at the same time! #dataviz #datavisualization #barbarplot #DoBetter

@gdoservices @BobMorden That means a lot to me, thank you!

@YaRrrBook hi Nathaniel! I am trying to install your FFTrees package for R but I’m getting an error message from CRAN. was it removed?

@Abduljamiu You're very welcome!

@YaRrrBook, thank you for the wonderful teaching aid

@Atul_Gawande This is the best news I've heard since Saturday morning :) I'm absolutely delighted to hear you will have a seat at the table @Atul_Gawande

I'm grateful and honored to be asked to serve and to contribute to ending this pandemic. We have runaway spread right now. But I am confident we can get the virus under control, save lives and livelihoods, and bring people back together again. buildbackbetter.com/press-releases…

@JanMultmeier @zachweinberg I almost never meet other Nathaniels. On my first day at Flatiron I met 2 Nates, 1 Nathan, and introduced myself as Nathaniel. I wondered if it's all part of @zachweinberg plan to start a Nathaniel army and this tweet seems eerily like an early battle cry. We. R. Ready.

@birkenkrahe Thanks! I quickly skimmed through it and while I agree with many of his points, I fully believe that the tidyverse provides essential tools for the modern R data scientist. My ideal teaching order would be tidyverse - base R - advanced base R - advanced tidyverse (.e.g.; purrr)

@YaRrrBook Perhaps not if you agree with the Tidyverse Sceptic github.com/matloff/Tidyve… - I appreciate the base-R basis of your text! Consider using it for an intro class

Attention R pirates! My book YaRrr! The Pirate's Guide to R bookdown.org/ndphillips/YaR…, was written (almost) completely in old-school base-R -- with all its benefits and headaches. Should I write a new version that is full on #tidyverse? 100 comments = Yes 😃🏴‍☠️

@sergiogarciamor @thomas_mock @renatagerecke haha even I forgot about the my little pony palette :)

using the cars dataset in stata class today...some things are truly universal <3

@fulanito4321 Thank you so much Joel, that means a lot to me :)

@YaRrrBook Yes, it's the best introduction I've found, gentler than 'R for Data Science', broader and has better questions than 'Modern Dive'. Thanks for writing it.

@damien_dupre @visnut I had to click the link to see what you were talking about :) Good analogy!

@visnut Another amazing document by @YaRrrBook is also using the light bulb comparison: bookdown.org/ndphillips/YaR…

@dataandme @dmkoelle Thanks @dataandme ! I love hearing from people using FFTrees in their research!

⚡️ Since this came in handy for someone yesterday (@dmkoelle)… 🌴 "FFTrees: An R package to create, visualize, & evaluate fast-and-frugal decision trees" by @YaRrrBook slides: buff.ly/2tXvCNa; pkg: buff.ly/2QrV2xd; shiny app: buff.ly/2WtwtUe #rstats

@tnmrppl Try installing BayesFactor directly with install.packages("BayesFactor"). This usually fixes this problem on Windows machines (where it often frustratingly comes up!)

@appleseleven It's true!!!

@YaRrrBook my statistician friends just put me into your book - "YaRrr!.. the Pirates Guide to R" Best book intro ever- "I did not write this book. This whole story started in the Summer of 2015. I was taking a late night swim on the Bodensee in Konstanz and saw a rusty object..

@WeAreRLadies @RLadiesAustin @TheStephLocke Thanks for the shoutout @WeAreRLadies ! @RLadiesAustin ! Glad you're enjoying FFTrees! Do let me know if you have suggestions for improvement :)

@Magnus_Nordmo Glad you like it!!!

Thank you @YaRrrBook for the wonderful pirateplots and for publishing yarrr book online! So much better than the non-pirate-themed boxplot alternative!

@niknaknel YaRrrr!

Probably the best resource for learning R I've come across (plus it's hilarious 😂) bookdown.org/ndphillips/YaR… @YaRrrBook

@katie_riddoch Ah yes, the original pdf version of the book is no longer in development (I think that was where the link you had was going). Stick with the HTML version at bookdown.org/ndphillips/YaR… or the respective PDF version here bookdown.org/ndphillips/YaR… :)

@YaRrrBook Upon clicking the link (see your prev post) it redirects me to: dropbox.com/s/54x2k81hxcow…

The newest version of The Pirate's Guide to R be here!: goo.gl/tbPP9K #r #rstudio #yarrr

@katie_riddoch Thanks for the shout out Katie! Glad you like it :)

Anyone wanting to learn 'R'? Definitely give this free online guide a go: bookdown.org/ndphillips/YaR… 👌🏴‍☠️ It's super easy to follow & I had such a laugh reading it! Thanks @YaRrrBook #r #rstudio #programming #phdchat #AcademicTwitter