For those who are excited about the new 2.13.0 release of R (particularly the compiler package) but are grumbling about having to remember what packages they have and re-install them, see this great advice or this piece on upgrading in osx for how to automate the process.
i'm a chordata! urochordata!
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It’s totally unrelated, but when I read the title of your blog, a grammatical inaccuracy struck me hard. Latin name of a taxon “chordata” is a plural of “[animal] chordatum” ([an animal] sporting a notochord), so it can’t be mixed with “I’m”, which is singular.
Unless, of course, you are a female – then it would be perfectly correct sentence.
Cheers.
Huh. Yeah. There was a reason I didn’t take latin in high school. And regretted it. *sigh*
Although, in fairness, the name of our phylum *is* Chordata – of which, indeed, we are all members. But, I’m a member of phylum Chordata just doesn’t roll off the tongue.
I certainly see your point, but you wouldn’t say “I’m Johnsons” as in “I’m a member of the Johnsons family”, rather “I’m (firstname)Johnson”.
Of course gender change would salvage your banner (which procedure I do not recommend).
But again, I’m just geeks.
perhaps i’m a chordate! you’re a chordate… only kidding, love the title!
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