Dear R users,
There is a new version (1.5-1) of the Rcmdr package. Here, from the CHANGES
files, are changes since the last minor version (1.4-0) was released a year
ago:
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Version 1.4-1
o The following updated translations have been added: Catalan (thanks to
Manel Salamero), French (thanks to Philippe Grojean), Japanese (thanks to
Takaharu Araki), Romanian (thanks to Adrian Dusa), and Slovenian (thanks to
Jaro.Lajovic).
Version 1.4-2
o For cases where translated help files of the form Commander-xx.Rd
won't compile (where "xx" is the language code), translators can
now provide
a PDF file named Commander-xx.pdf to be substituted when users select Menu
-> Commander help. (Thanks to Alexey Shipunov for helping me with this
problem.)
o Dialogs that reset the active data set no longer do so if an error
occurs; previously, resetting the active data set caused error messages to
scroll off out of sight in the Messages window (problem reported by Peter
Dalgaard).
o Improved error checking and protection in distributions dialogs.
Version 1.4-3
o Fixed a bug in the scroll-bar for the RHS of model formulas (reported
by Ulrich Halekoh).
o Fixed problem with some legends in plotMeans() (reported by Rich
Heiberger).
o Updated Spanish translation (courtesy Rcmdr Spanish translation team).
Version 1.4-4
o Small changes to Hist() to make it more flexible (suggested by Gilles
Marcou).
Version 1.4-5
o Change to Message(), which posts messages to the Message window, to
prevent the window from freezing in (some) Windows systems under R 2.8.0
(problem reported by Rich Heiberger).
o Updated Indonesian translation (thanks to I. Made Tirta).
Version 1.4-6
o Added polr and multinom models to effect-plots, consistent with latest
version of effects package.
o ttkentry() redefined to trim leading and trailing blanks (to avoid
potential problems when user introduces a leading or trailing blank in a
text field, as reported by Rich Heiberger).
o An attempt is made to break commands at blanks and commas to fit them
in the script and output windows.
o Improvements to the one-way and multi-way ANOVA dialogs, including
saving the models that are produced (suggested by Rich Heiberger).
o Improvements and bug fixes to handling of plug-in menu installation.
o New function MacOSXP() to test for Mac OS X; used to suppress "Data
->
New data set" menu, since the Mac data editor causes R to hang when called
with an empty data frame (reported by Rob Goedman and Tracy Lightcap).
o When character values are entered in the data editor after "Data
->
New data set", the corresponding variable is converted to a factor.
o When console.output is TRUE, messages as well as output now go to the
R Console and the Commander Messages window (as well as the Output window)
is suppressed (with code contributed by Richard Heiberger).
o Small changes.
Version 1.4-7
o Improved Brazilian Portuguese translation, contributed by Adriano
Azevedo-Filho and Marilia Sa Carvalho.
o Added function sortVarNames(), which sorts variable names including
numerals into a more "natural" order than does sort(); used in
variable
lists when the Rcmdr option "sort.names" is TRUE, which is the
default.
o Small changes.
Version 1.4-8
o Export data set now allows an arbitrary field separator (suggested by
Marilia Sa Carvalho).
o Menus can now use translation files supplied by plug-ins.
o Path names with apostrophes should no longer produce an "unbalanced
parentheses" error.
o Added files for Debian Linux (from Pietro Battiston and Dirk
Eddelbuettel).
o Small changes.
Version 1.4-9
o Upated Russian translation (courtesy of Alexey Shipunov).
o Fixed bug in BreuschPaganTest() that prevented dialog from functioning
(reported by Michel Pouchain).
Version 1.4-10
o Corrected problem in paste in Command window in non-Windows systems
(reported by Liviu Andronic).
o Fixed handling of X11 warnings which was disrupted by showData(), and
added check for "Warning in structure" (problems reported by Liviu
Andronic).
o Prefixes used when output is directed to the R console are no longer
hard-coded, but can be set by the "prefixes" Rcmdr option (to satisfy
a
request by Liviu Andronic).
Version 1.4-11
o Correction to .mo file for Brazilian Portuguese translation (supplied
by Adriano Azevedo-Filho following report by Donald Pianto).
o Added summary() output to principal components (suggested by Liviu
Andronic).
Version 1.5-0
o Added model-selection dialogs, stepwise and subset (several requests).
o Modifications to model-definition dialogs (suggested by Ulrike
Gromping): If you select several variables in the variable-list box,
clicking on the
+, *, or : button will enter them into the model formula.
o The compare-models and Anova-table code for GLMs now uses F-tests when
the dispersion parameter is estimated (after a suggstion by Ulrich Halekoh).
o Added optional pairwise p-values to correlations dialog (several
requests); new rcorr.adjust() function, adapted from code sent by Robert A.
Muenchen.
o New Library() command for loading packages. Packages generally
attached in position 4, to avoid masking objects in Rcmdr and car.
o Messages in the Messages window are now numbered, according to the
Rcmdr number.messages option (suggested by Liviu Andronic).
o Added dialog box to merge rows and columns, along with mergeRows()
function (after a suggestion by Stephen Shamblen).
o Added aggregate dialog box to aggregate variables by factor(s) (after
a suggestion by Stephen Shamblen).
o Added variable.list.width option (suggested by Liviu Andronic).
o Under Windows, a check is made for the mdi and a warning message
printed, if it's detected (courtesy of code from Uwe Ligges).
o Updated Commander.Rd.
o Small changes.
Version 1.5-1
o Fixes to links in docs (pointed out by Brian Ripley).
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New version in the 1.5-x series will be released as updated translations
become available and if bugs surface. Of course, bug reports and suggestions
are appreciated.
Regards,
John
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John Fox
Department of Sociology
Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
