Cohort 9

Meeting chat log
00:04:26    Howard Baek:    Good to see you again, Olivier
00:11:01    Derek Sollberger (he/him):  start
00:18:16    Olivier Leroy:  T is not a restricted name unlike TRUE:
00:18:17    Olivier Leroy:  > TRUE <-"bob"
Error in TRUE <- "bob" : invalid (do_set) left-hand side to assignment
> T <- "bob"
>
00:22:03    Steffi LaZerte (she/her):   nchar()
00:25:34    Olivier Leroy:  A reference from War ? :p
00:25:39    Olivier Leroy:  Wat
00:26:50    Olivier Leroy:  (https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat)
00:32:26    Howard Baek:    I found a blog post discussing different flavors of NA: https://www.njtierney.com/post/2020/09/17/missing-flavour/
00:32:47    Olivier Leroy:  Brb just checking in an other book
00:36:12    Olivier Leroy:  > x <- 1L
> is.numeric(x)
[1] TRUE
> y <- 1.4
> is.numeric(y)
[1] TRUE
00:37:20    Olivier Leroy:  > x <- 1
> is.double(x)
[1] TRUE
00:39:51    Derek Sollberger (he/him):  aside: banker's rounding
00:39:56    Olivier Leroy:  > x <- 2.8
> as.integer(x)
[1] 2
00:40:04    Olivier Leroy:  (truncated)
00:40:11    Howard Baek:    Non-integral numeric values are truncated towards zero (i.e., as.integer(x) equals trunc(x) there)
00:40:29    Howard Baek:    I found the above in the help page
00:40:34    Olivier Leroy:  Reacted to "I found the above in..." with πŸ‘
00:40:38    tataphani:  Reacted to "I found the above in..." with πŸ‘
00:40:39    Steffi LaZerte (she/her):   Reacted to "Non-integral numeric..." with πŸ‘πŸ»
00:44:36    Jo Hardin:  also, the integer class is complicated because factor variables are integers… sort of
00:44:48    Olivier Leroy:  Reacted to "also, the integer cl..." with πŸ‘
00:44:52    Diana Garcia Cortes:    Reacted to "also, the integer cl..." with πŸ‘
00:45:38    Howard Baek:    Reacted to "also, the integer cl..." with πŸ‘
00:45:47    Howard Baek:    Reacted to "Screenshot2024_06_07_094000.jpg" with πŸ‘
00:46:57    Vania:  Reacted to "Screenshot2024_06_07_094000.jpg" with πŸ‘
00:47:45    Vania:  Replying to "Screenshot2024_06_07_094000.jpg"

I actually didn’t know this. Really interesting!
00:48:59    Steffi LaZerte (she/her):   Reacted to "Jo Hardin has sent y..." with πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«
00:49:08    Jo Hardin:  Replying to "Screenshot2024_06_07_094000.jpg"

i just learned said fact when reading the chapter for today’s meeting.  πŸ™‚
00:50:53    Diana Garcia Cortes:    Reacted to "Screenshot2024_06_07_094000.jpg" with πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«
00:52:18    Howard Baek:    From the help page:

An array in R can have one, two or more dimensions. It is simply a vector which is stored with additional attributes giving the dimensions (attribute "dim") and optionally names for those dimensions (attribute "dimnames").
A two-dimensional array is the same thing as a matrix.
00:53:02    Howard Baek:    methods("print")
00:58:05    Derek Sollberger (he/him):  (just for fun) "How to pronounce 'POSIXct'"
https://www.howtopronounce.com/pos(just for fun) "How to pronounce 'POSIXct'"
https://www.howtopronounce.com/posixct
00:58:15    Steffi LaZerte (she/her):   Reacted to "(just for fun) "How ..." with πŸ˜‚
00:58:58    Olivier Leroy:  Reacted to "(just for fun) "How ..." with πŸ˜‚
00:59:42    Jo Hardin:  gotta run off to a different 10am meeting.  thanks, Derek!
01:00:07    Steffi LaZerte (she/her):   Reacted to "gotta run off to a d..." with πŸ‘‹πŸ»
01:01:22    Howard Baek:    Reacted to "gotta run off to a d..." with πŸ‘‹πŸ»
01:01:57    Olivier Leroy:  Reacted to "gotta run off to a d..." with πŸ‘‹πŸ»
01:03:14    Derek Sollberger (he/him):  end