Smug, self-satisfied responses are becoming more common as exemplified here.
These contribute to nothing except the author's ego and distract from the
generous and patient help others provide. Regardless of how naive the questioner
or how well-credentialed the respondent, the community would benefit if the
sources of such comments found other outlets for condescension.
Ryan Derickson
> On Dec 28, 2015, at 10:32 PM, mesude bayrakci <mesudebayrakci at
gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> This would be my last comments on "politeness" discussion started
after my
> email, and do not want to keep the forum busy with this. Please do not
> continue writing on this matter to the forum.
>
> First of all, I just started using R for a short period of time, and using
> it for a small part of my research, given that I am coming from different
> technical background.
> 1) It is my understanding that the some of experts on this forum are
> expecting high quality questions from people who have just started learning
> things 2) It seems that Rolf's email has custom "cheer"
signature. 3) In my
> first email, I thank him for his response and tried to explain him that I
> am aware of that example and did not think it would help me and thus asked
> second question and did not claim that he would not answer my question, my
> second response to Rolf's email was just basically reaction to his
first
> paragraph. 4) I think Oliver's comment is the most important one among
the
> points I stated here.
>
> Thank you for your support and suggestions, Oliver. It is greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thank you for your response, Jim.
>
> Best,
>
> Mesude
>
>
>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon at
gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi mesude,
>> Achim's example seems particularly clear. Install the
"betareg" and
>> "flexmix" packages. I obtain a reasonable looking result for
alpha and beta
>> for a simulated dataset very similar to yours.
>>
>>> a
>> Comp.1 Comp.2
>> 10.0674445 0.6452801
>>> b
>> Comp.1 Comp.2
>> 2.830934 0.769768
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 6:40 AM, mesude bayrakci <mesudebayrakci at
gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have data; one column and 310 rows. When I plot the histogram, it
has
>>> two
>>> peaks; please see the attachment. I would like to find appropriate
>>> distribution that fits the data. I tried to mixtools in R, but it
did not
>>> fit well.
>>>
>>> I want to mix two beta distribution. I found that there is betareg
package
>>> in R but the shape1,shape2 were known or there were two different
data in
>>> the all examples.
>>>
>>> I do not know where to start. How can I use betamix in R to fit the
data?
>>> Any hint?
>>>
>>> I really appreciate.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
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