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Hi all... My students were conflating grepping for a value in a vector to get the index, and then removing it with [-index], for instance like this: set.seed(17) v <- rnorm(20) s <- v[-1.18] They were trying to remove the 12th value in v, which is -1.18 or so. But the result is, as documented in ?Extract, to coerce 1.18 to the next lowest integer, and remove the 1st value of v, not the

...produce almost identical network behavior.) ( The reason the average from server to clients is so low is due to unexplainable lulls in transmission from the server to the client. Peaks in the transfer near 6.0 MB at times. ) The lulls usually only last a second to 3 or so. But it's the darnest thing watching them. The transfer to the server looks like a nice plateu one might like to have a picnic on. While the server to client looks more like that rocky outcrop they used a billion times in Start Trek out in the desert. (This is from monitoring network traffic on the Window's Task Man...