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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 was trying without success. I

am trying to produce two dot plot figures in ggplot2. So far the first one (p) in the program below is working fine. However when I want to move to a faceted plot (p1) I seem to lose my ordering or, more likely, I'm just getting an ordering I am not expecting and I always have trouble understanding ordering in R! What I would like is the 2011 panel to be ordered in descending order as is

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