Monthly Archives: November 2018

Recommended: Welcome to DASL – The Data And Story Library

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The Data and Story Library (DASL) is a collection of small and simple data sets useful for teaching basic statistical concepts. It was originally housed at the Carnegie-Mellon website, but (like many classic websites) it disappeared one day. The nice folks at Data Description, Inc. (makers of Data Desk software) have revived and updated this resource. Continue reading

PMean: Getting R to shut the heck up

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When you are using R Markdown to create various documents, you are often interested in displaying any informative messages that appear along the way. This is especially true for documents you plan to use yourself. But when you are preparing a report or a presentation for someone else, you may want to suppress these messages. That’s not always easy because different functions in R use different means to display messages, especially warning messages. So the option that might suppress a warning message from one function might not work for another function. Warnings when loading packages are notoriously difficult to suppress. I want to list, for my own benefit, all of the options that are available for getting R to shut the heck up. Continue reading