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Sorry to send this to the wrong list. But it appears that the general list is mostly utilized as a SPAM vector and/or is absentee moderated (the message has yet to make it to the archives, despite being dated days earlier than messages which are there). In any event, I'd like to know if anyone could provide me with some more information than is available in the manpages, FAQ, and other

Dear all, dear Prof. Bates, my dependent variable (school absenteeism, truancy[1]) is a binary response for which I am trying to compute an unconditional mixed effects model. I've got observations (monday, wednesday and friday) nested in individuals (ID2), which were nested in classes (KID2) and schools (SID), i.e. a 4-level mixed effects model. In short, I...

...", "absent2011", "absent2001"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -26L)) # produce a dotplot for 2011 p <- ggplot(mydata, aes(x = reorder(group, absent2011) , y = absent2011)) + geom_point() + coord_flip() + opts(title = "Absenteeism among Canadian employees \n 2011", legend.position="none") + scale_y_continuous("Annual number of days absent") + scale_x_discrete("Industry Groups") p # faceted dot...

I made the mistake of trying to upgrade to 1.8.4 from 1.8.2 and had intended to upgrade to rails 1.1. I have now completely borked my ruby gems installation. After installing ruby I get the following error when trying to execute gem: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require__'': no such file to load -- zlib (LoadError) from

Hi Eric, logging is configured in sshd_config with - # Logging # obsoletes QuietMode and FascistLogging SyslogFacility AUTH LogLevel INFO - where 'SyslogFacility' specifies which "facility" (sorry;-), i.e. e.g. 'auth', 'daemon', 'mail' etc should be used and with 'LogLevel' you can specify how verbosely sshd should be. Of course the

Hello could you please tell me what is the function to get the absolute value of the real or complex number. most of other languages it is abs(x) , what is it in r? I did few searhces in the help docs for no avail. thanks F.J

Attached is a patch against shout-python-0.2 which does two trivial but very useful things (1) The function "get_connected" is exported so that shout-python becomes usable in nonblocking mode. In the current version of shout-python "open" raises an exception in nonblocking mode. (2) The global interpreter lock is released in the potentially blocking functions