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...tion for R (and perhaps S and SPlus) historians. Does anyone know the reason for the inconsistency in the way that the action that should be taken when data are missing is specified? There are several variants, na.action, na.omit, "T", TRUE, etc. I know that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of a small mind, but consistency can make things easier. My question is not meant as a complaint. I very much admire the R development team. I simply am curious. John John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics Baltimore VA Medical Center GRECC and University of Maryland School...

In asp you have an Application built-in object, which works just like the Session hash, but it lets you share information among all users of a given application. which is the rails equivalent??? and if there isn''t, how would you implement such a thing ? (there would be concurrency issues to take into account, in fact asp''s application object has some lock and unlock methods

Dear UseRs, Could someone explain to me why the default behaviour of rank() is to assign the largest rank to missing data > rank(c(3, 1, NA)) [1] 2 1 3 as opposed to what I would hazard would be the expected 2, 1, NA? Despite consistency being the hobgoblin of little minds, of two closely related functions one handles NAs in the same way (order()) but another one doesn't (sort()). order() also uses the "NA last" rule by default, whereas sort() removes NAs. alejandro

...8 characters or less; i.e., [home] or [configs], etc. Is this correct, or can the name be longer? Also, are there any specific characters that are not allowed? I am not planning on using any, but I was just wondering. Ciao! -- Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson

...perhaps in another CD insert? In the "Typical example for CLASSICAL [sic] music", you have both PART and TITLE comments in quotes. Why? I also suggest that you expand LABELNO to LABELNUMBER so we don't have LABEL*NO*, but TRACK*NUMBER* and DISC*NUMBER*. Foolish inconsistency is the hobgoblin of consensus building. Finally, a style note: you seem to have a predilection for typing in all caps--this makes you seem like a gadfly much like Jakob Nielsen. I therefore suggest: - Don't type in all caps unless you're referring to particular tag names. - prefer <strong> to all cap...

Hi, I will probably have to design an e-mail (and other components) infrastructure for a small ISP soon (WISP). I'm doing some research to determine which components would be best to offer e-mail services to their client and allow the staff to manage accounts easily. I usually use virtual machines a lot for isolation and easy backups and migration (when a hardware node is

Howdy, Is there a method to get the number of elements in an aggregation? Are the results stored in an aggregation guaranteed to be in any type of order? Thanks for any insight, - Ryan -- UNIX Administrator http://daemons.net/~matty