R help - Jan 2003 - Version 0.8.0 of the gregmisc package is now available

Version 0.8.0 of the gregmisc package is now (or will shortly be) available
on CRAN.  

New in this release:

- Enhanced and bug-fixed 'CrossTable' function (contributed by
  Marc Schwartz)

- Augmented the 'barplot2' function with an 'add' argument to
allow for
  the addition of a barplot to an existing graphic. (contributed by
  Marc Schwartz)

- Added the 'baloonplot' function which creates a visual 2-way table 
  containing circles whose area corresponds to the size of the corresponding

  measurement. 
 
- Renamed 'contrast.lm' to 'fit.contrast'.  This new name is
more
  descriptive and makes it easier to create and use methods for other
  classes, eg lme.

- New contrast.lm function which generates a 'depreciated' warning and
  calls fit.contrast.

- Enabled fit.contrast for lme object now that Doug Bates has provided
  the necessary support for contrasts in the nlme package. (Thanks Doug!)
  Requires the newly released nlme 3.1-37.

- 'make.contrasts' has been augmented to check for too many submitted 
   contrast rows

- Updated wapply.R to allow specification of evaluation points when
  method is 'width' or 'range' using the 'pts' argument.

- Updated wapply.Rd to add 'pts' argument

- Fixed typos, spelling errors, grammatical errors and lack of clarity
  in various help pages.

Description of the package:

Package: gregmisc
Description: Misc Functions written/maintained by Gregory R. Warnes
Title: Greg's Miscellaneous Functions
Version: 0.8.0
Date: 2003/01/30
Maintainer: Gregory R. Warnes <Gregory_R_Warnes at groton.pfizer.com>
Author: Gregory R. Warnes.  Includes code provided by Ben Bolker,
        Bendix Carstensen, Don MacQueen, William Venables, Marc
        Schwartz, Ben Bolker, Ian Wilson, and Kjetil Halvorsen
License: GPL (version 2 or later)
Depends: R (>= 1.6.0), MASS, nlme (>= 3.1-37)
Built: R 1.6.1; sparc-sun-solaris2.8; Thu Jan 30 17:13:52 EST 2003

Index:

CrossTable              Cross Tabulation with Tests for Factor
                        Independence
aggregate.table         Create 2-Way Table of Summary Statistics
balloonplot             Plot a graphical matrix where each cell
                        contains a dot whose size reflects the relative
                        magnitude of the corresponding component.
bandplot                Plot x-y Points with Locally Smoothed Mean and
                        Standard Deviation
barplot2                Enhanced Bar Plots
boxplot.n               Produce a Boxplot Annotated with the Number of
                        Observations
ci                      Compute Confidence Intervals
combinations            Enumerate the Combinations or Permutations of
                        the Elements of a Vector
combine                 Combine R Objects With a Column Labeling the
                        Source
contrast.lm             Compute and test arbitrary contrasts for
                        regression objects (Depreciated, use
                        'fit.contrasts' instead.)
rdirichlet              Functions for the Dirichlet Distribution
estimable               Compute and test estimable linear functions of
                        the fitted coefficients (including contrasts)
                        of regression objects
factorial               Compute factorial function
fast.prcomp             Efficient computation of principal components
                        and singular value decompositions.
fit.contrast            Compute and test arbitrary contrasts for
                        regression objects
glh.test                Test a General Linear Hypothesis for a
                        Regression Model 
hist2d                  Compute and Plot a 2-Dimensional Histogram 
interleave              Interleave Rows of Data Frames or Matrices 
lowess                  Scatter Plot Smoothing
make.contrasts          Construct a User-Specified Contrast Matrix
nobs                    Compute the Number of Non-missing Observations 
permute                 Randomly Permute the Elements of a Vector
plotCI                  Plot Error Bars
plotmeans               Plot Group Means and Confidence Intervals
qqnorm.aov              Makes a half or full normal plot for the
                        effects from an aov model 
quantcut                Create a Factor Variable Using the Quantiles of
                        a Continuous Variable
rename.vars             Rename variables in a dataframe 
reorder                 Reorder the Levels of a Factor
running                 Apply a Function Over Adjacent Subsets of a
                        Vector
space                   Space points in an x-y plot so they don't
                        overlap.
undocumented            Undocumented functions
wapply                  Compute the Value of a Function Over a Local
                        Region Of An X-Y Plot




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