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Hi, I posted some days ago a question concerning the computation of lambda in the smooth.spline function (which I repreat at the bottom of the mail) given _df_ . Unfortunately the documentation is not clear to me. Maybee someone can help to answer in my view the basic question: If the penalized log likelihood is L = (y - f)' W (y - f) + lambda c' Sigma c how the _lambda_ in the above equation is computed if _df_ is given and _spar_ not? And,...