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Nasty beast [Software]

posted by Ohlbe – France, 2019-07-19 13:32 (2134 d 07:07 ago) – Posting: # 20397
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Dear Helmut,

❝ Using if(), its relatives, and loop-constructs (for(), while(), repeat()) in many cases are prone to errors

❝ Good luck coding that with a loop and a nested if() { do this } else { do that } elseif { oops }

I think that's really what pissed me off. I thought something like if... else... would be very logical and easy. Maybe because these are real words from a language I can understand. But it looks like R and I are following different kinds of logics.

When you learn a new language and start speaking it with somebody, that person will usually show some goodwill, ignore grammatical mistakes and try and understand what you mean. R made no efforts of any kind, even though what I was trying to achieve was pretty obvious

❝ If you have a vector of data (say y)

Yeah, ElMaestro started using this kind of vocabulary too when we were exchanging email. That got me even more confused. All I learnt at school about vectors is the geometric side of the concept - what Wikipedia apparently calls Euclidian vector. I had some problems understanding what an arrow between two points had to do with what I was trying to achieve.
Sorry ElMaestro, we're going quite far from your original question...

Complete thread:

• Spreadsheet failures, any recent examples? ElMaestro 2019-07-18 13:43 [Software] 
  • Spreadsheet failures, any recent examples? Ohlbe 2019-07-18 14:32
    • Spreadsheet addiction Helmut 2019-07-18 16:12
      • Nasty beast Ohlbe 2019-07-18 17:30
        • Nasty beast Helmut 2019-07-18 20:26
          • Nasty beastOhlbe 2019-07-19 11:32
            • Nasty beast ElMaestro 2019-07-19 12:32
              • Decidedly off topic Ohlbe 2019-07-19 13:38
            • OT: R limbo 101 Helmut 2019-07-19 13:00
      • Spreadsheet addiction Shuanghe 2019-07-18 18:59
        • Spreadsheet addiction Helmut 2019-07-18 20:04
          • OT: Spreadsheet addiction Shuanghe 2019-07-19 12:41
            • OT: Spreadsheet addiction Helmut 2019-07-19 14:29
              • OT: Spreadsheet addiction nobody 2019-07-19 15:53
                • OT: Spreadsheet addiction Helmut 2019-07-19 19:32
    • Spreadsheet etc. failures zizou 2019-07-20 00:18
      • As designed ☺ Helmut 2019-07-20 02:12
        • As designed ☺ ElMaestro 2019-07-20 09:08
          • To round or not to round… Helmut 2019-07-20 12:53
            • To round or not to round… ElMaestro 2019-07-20 19:59
              • floating-point math is always more complex than you think it is mittyri 2019-07-20 22:43
  • Spreadsheet failures, any recent examples? Ohlbe 2020-12-10 18:43
    • Floating point arithmetic, again Helmut 2020-12-10 19:12
      • Floating point arithmetic, again ElMaestro 2020-12-10 19:40
        • Floating point arithmetic, again Ohlbe 2020-12-10 20:18
          • Floating point arithmetic, again ElMaestro 2020-12-10 21:38
            • Floating point arithmetic, again Ohlbe 2020-12-10 21:46
              • Floating point arithmetic, again ElMaestro 2020-12-10 22:05
                • Depressed Ohlbe 2020-12-10 23:35
                  • Depressed ElMaestro 2020-12-11 07:59
      • Floating point arithmetic, again Ohlbe 2020-12-10 20:13
    • From bad to worse Ohlbe 2020-12-10 22:11
      • From bad to worse mittyri 2020-12-11 00:22
      • All is good Helmut 2020-12-11 00:36
        • Float is float PharmCat 2020-12-18 20:53
          • Float is float! Helmut 2020-12-20 23:27
            • rational solution in R mittyri 2020-12-21 13:49
              • related stuff Helmut 2021-01-14 12:53
                • related stuff SDavis 2021-02-09 12:02
                  • related stuff ElMaestro 2021-02-09 19:55