first of all, thanks so much for your insight.

regardless your bike skills, it is very inappropriate to compare riding bike
with using r. in additionally, simply knowing R is very different from using
it skillfully in production envirnment.


On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Rolf Turner <r.turner@auckland.ac.nz>wrote:

>
> On 19/09/2008, at 5:01 PM, Wensui Liu wrote:
>
>  Dear Listers,
>>
>> I've been a big fan of R since graduate school. After working in the
>> industry for years, I haven't had many opportunities to use R and am
>> mainly
>> using SAS.
>>
>
>        My most extreme sympathies and condolences!
>
>  However, I am still forcing myself really hard to stay close to R
>>
>
>        You have to *force* yourself???
>
>  by reading R-help and books and writing R code by myself for fun. But by
>> and
>> by, I start realizing I have hard time to keep up with R and am afraid
>> that
>> I would totally forget how to program in R.
>>
>> I really like it and am very unwilling to give it up. Is there any idea
>> how
>> I might keep touch with R without using it in work on daily basis? I
>> really
>> appreciate it.
>>
>
> To me, using R is like riding a bicycle.  Once you learn, you never
> forget!
>
> Actually that comparison is inappropriate in my case; such are my
> bicycling skills that I am much more likely to forget how to ride a
> bicycle than I am to forget how to use R.
>
> Of course one forgets *details*.  But those are just details.  And
> help.search() + RSiteSearch() will almost always recover those details
> for you.  If they don't, just ask R-help(), perhaps after putting on
> your asbestos suit.
>
>        cheers,
>
>                Rolf Turner
>
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