[R] [FORGED] Ask function missing in package car

Ashim Kapoor
2016-06-22T02:35:19Z

Dear Mark,

Many thanks.

Best Regards,
Ashim

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com>
wrote:

> According to the NEWS file for the package:
>
>   https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/car/NEWS
>
> the Ask() function was removed in car version 2.0-0, which was released on
> 2010-07-26. So it has been gone for about 6 years.
>
> The version of car that is used in the documentation that you are using is
> 1.2-16, which is from 2009-10-11.
>
> So the online documentation source is outdated.
>
> I see that the Ask() function is listed in the first edition of John's
> book, which I have on my shelf, but I don't have the second edition to
know
> if that had been updated. A review of the index for the second edition on
> Amazon.com would suggest that it was removed for the second edition.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc Schwartz
>
>
> > On Jun 21, 2016, at 8:29 PM, Ashim Kapoor <ashimkapoor at
gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am reading the book An R and S plus companion to Applied Regression
> and I
> > found this function there.
> >
> > Googling gave me the link [1].
> >
> > 1. http://svitsrv25.epfl.ch/R-doc/library/car/html/Ask.html
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 6:57 AM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at
auckland.ac.nz>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 22/06/16 13:06, Ashim Kapoor wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dear All,
> >>>
> >>> my details:-
> >>>
> >>>> sessionInfo()
> >>>>
> >>> R version 3.3.0 (2016-05-03)
> >>> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> >>> Running under: Ubuntu 15.10
> >>>
> >>> locale:
> >>> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_IN       LC_NUMERIC=C         LC_TIME=en_IN
> >>> [4] LC_COLLATE=en_IN     LC_MONETARY=en_IN
LC_MESSAGES=en_IN
> >>> [7] LC_PAPER=en_IN       LC_NAME=C            LC_ADDRESS=C
> >>> [10] LC_TELEPHONE=C       LC_MEASUREMENT=en_IN
LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> >>>
> >>> attached base packages:
> >>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
base
> >>>
> >>> other attached packages:
> >>> [1] car_2.1-2
> >>>
> >>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> >>> [1] Rcpp_0.12.5        lattice_0.20-33    MASS_7.3-43
> >>> grid_3.3.0
> >>> [5] nlme_3.1-128       MatrixModels_0.4-1 SparseM_1.7
> >>> minqa_1.2.4
> >>> [9] nloptr_1.0.4       Matrix_1.2-6       splines_3.3.0
> >>> lme4_1.1-12
> >>> [13] pbkrtest_0.4-6     parallel_3.3.0     mgcv_1.8-7
> >>> nnet_7.3-10
> >>> [17] quantreg_5.24
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>    ## Not run:
> >>>> attach(UN)
> >>>>
> >>>> # enter the power-transformation parameter
> >>>> # start with 1
> >>>> Ask(p, function(p) qq.plot(box.cox(gdp, p),
> >>>>
> >>> +         ylab=paste("transformed gdp, power =",p)))
> >>> Error: could not find function "Ask"
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> What can I do to correct this?
> >>>
> >>
> >> What led you to believe that such a function exists (in the
"car"
> package
> >> or anywhere else for that matter)?  And what exactly do you want
it to
> do
> >> for you?
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >>
> >> Rolf Turner
> >>
> >> --
> >> Technical Editor ANZJS
> >> Department of Statistics
> >> University of Auckland
> >> Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276
>
>

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