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18 October 2007
R Quiz Anybody?
Perl has the Perl quiz, Python has the Python challenges, Ruby has the Ruby quiz, but what about our good old friend R?? Does such a thing exist anywhere? Would be a nice idea I think...
Posted by Jens Hainmueller at October 18, 2007 8:52 PM
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Why not simply use the R-help mailinglist? Basically it functions as a quiz most of the time, without the 48-hour waiting period as is customary with the ruby quiz.
What we simple need is a couple of great puzzels, a coordinator and a blog / wiki that gathers the sollutions.
Any volunteers?
Posted by: Rense Nieuwenhuis at October 20, 2007 11:25 AM
Well you could look at the first r programming competition as a start: http://user2007.org/competition/
Posted by: Hadley Wickham at November 12, 2007 9:29 PM
Everyone loves R (at least until they start dealing with large data sets), but c'mon: part of its virtue is that it's not icky like Perl. Python seems really out of place here, as its virtue is the one Minnesota Fats espoused in an early tutorial: always take the easy shot.
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