Long time readers indeed. That article was from 2009!
-----Original Message----- From: R-help <r-help-boun...@r-project.org> On Behalf Of Enrico Schumann Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2024 5:27 AM To: Bill Dunlap <williamwdun...@gmail.com> Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] [off-topic] crossword On Fri, 13 Dec 2024, Bill Dunlap writes: > Crossword answers have to be drop-in replacements for the clue in a > sentence. Hence replacing > "She writes in C and R, say." > with > "She codes" > would work, but "She coder" would not. > > (If one interpreted C and R as the names of third party candidates for > office, then "She votes" would work, > but the across words made "codes" a more reasonable answer.) > > I was impressed that they expected the typical NYT reader to know that R > was a programming language. > > -Bill They expect them to be long-time readers :-) https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
