On 11/09/15 11:57, David Winsemius wrote: <SNIP>> The urge to imitate other statistical package that rely on profusion > of dummies should be resisted. R repression functions can handle > factor variables ....<SNIP> Fortune? :-) cheers, Rolf -- Technical Editor ANZJS Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276
On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Rolf Turner wrote:> On 11/09/15 11:57, David Winsemius wrote: > > <SNIP> > >> The urge to imitate other statistical package that rely on profusion >> of dummies should be resisted. R repression functions can handle >> factor variables .... > > <SNIP> > > Fortune? :-)Nice! Should I include the "repression" typo? :-) Best, Z> cheers, > > Rolf > > -- > Technical Editor ANZJS > Department of Statistics > University of Auckland > Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 >
On 11/09/15 12:25, Achim Zeileis wrote:> On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Rolf Turner wrote: > >> On 11/09/15 11:57, David Winsemius wrote: >> >> <SNIP> >> >>> The urge to imitate other statistical package that rely on profusion >>> of dummies should be resisted. R repression functions can handle >>> factor variables .... >> >> <SNIP> >> >> Fortune? :-) > > Nice! Should I include the "repression" typo? :-)Yes! That's the point, from my point of view! :-) cheers, Rolf -- Technical Editor ANZJS Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276
On Sep 10, 2015, at 5:25 PM, Achim Zeileis wrote:> On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Rolf Turner wrote: > >> On 11/09/15 11:57, David Winsemius wrote: >> >> <SNIP> >> >>> The urge to imitate other statistical package that rely on profusion >>> of dummies should be resisted. R repression functions can handle >>> factor variables .... >> >> <SNIP> >> >> Fortune? :-) > > Nice! Should I include the "repression" typo? :-) >Er, maybe not. Or the package[s] error. Whatever; David.> Best, > Z > >> cheers, >> >> Rolf >> >> -- >> Technical Editor ANZJS >> Department of Statistics >> University of Auckland >> Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 >>David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA