morse at pobox.com (Doug Morse) writes:
>
> Hi!
>
> I've been using R for about nine months now -- it's great. Nicely
done!
>
> Here are some questions / comments I have. Some are trivialities, but I
> thought I'd mention them anyway. Others are a bit more involved. BTW,
> I run R (Version 0.61.1 Alpha) on RedHat Linux 4.1
>
> 1. Interrupt Key
>
> How is one supposed to interrupt a command? In S-Plus, one uses
> the 'Escape' key. In R, I can press my terminal's
Interrupt
> key (Ctrl-C), but this only works *once*. After that, the event
> seems to get ignored. This is a nuicance for two reasons: (a) I
> can't interrupt a command but once in a session, and (b) at the
> "> " prompt, I can't press Ctrl-C to abort my many
typing errors
> but once a session as well.
This is a bug in the readline library. Upgrade to 2.1/3.0.
> 2. Sourcing MS-DOS Files
>
> I also use R on my laptop (Win95) and often transfer files
> back and forth between it and my linux host. R doesn't
> seem to like this much -- I always have to convert [newlines]
> to [newlines-carriage returns] and back. Not a big deal, but
> a bit annoying. Could 'source' not be modified to auto-detect
> end-of-line method?
Probably, but you could also make a habit of copying your files with
mcopy -t ...
>
> 3. Coercing Types within a DataFrame
>
> This is a more serious problem. In S-Plus, I can run:
>
> myframe <- read.table('mydata.dat', T);
> myframe[, 'Steps'] <- as.factor(myframe[,
'Steps']);
>
That looks like a bug. However, this works:
> data(airquality)
> airquality$"Day"<-factor(airquality$"Day")
> airquality["Day"]<-codes(airquality["Day"])
and upcoming versions will allow:> airquality<-transform(airquality,Day=factor(Day))
> 4. Anovalist.lm
>
..>
> For example, the following should be allowed:
>
> -----
> Analysis of Variance Table
>
> Model 1: Satisfaction + Age ~ Anxiety
> Model 2: Satisfaction ~ Age + Severity + Anxiety
>
> Res.Df Res.Sum-Sq Df Sum-Sq F Pr(>F)
> 1 21 2152
> 2 19 2012 2 139.9 0.6609 0.5279
> -----
>
> It represents a test of whether beta1 = -1.0 and beta2 = 0.0
> using the generalized linear test statistic (see "Applied
Wouldn't this be better done using offsets?
> 5. AOV
>
> Any word on 'aov' and friends? Or alternatively, getting
'lm' (and
Ross has been talking about it for a while now. Doug Bates has done
some work on lme() and is close to having something releasable there.
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