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...persist. The workaround(?) is trivial: source() in a file with the assignments in the Rprofile.site file. Assignments in the sourced file are done in .GlobalEnv. Cheers, Bert Gunter Biometrics Research RY 84-16 Merck & Company P.O. Box 2000 Rahway, NJ 07065-0900 Phone: (732) 594-7765 mailto: bert_gunter@merck.com "The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process." -- George E.P. Box ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

...e the window, the added menus now are present. The exact same procedure under 1.6.2 with exactly the same Rprofile.site and Rconsole files works fine. Have fun. Cheers, Bert Gunter Biometrics Research RY 84-16 Merck & Company P.O. Box 2000 Rahway, NJ 07065-0900 Phone: (732) 594-7765 mailto: bert_gunter@merck.com "The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process." -- George E.P. Box

...the stupid S-Plus GUI features that I have to remove or ignore (although I did like the Object Explorer for keeping track of my objects and attached directories). Cheers, Bert Gunter Biometrics Research RY 84-16 Merck & Company P.O. Box 2000 Rahway, NJ 07065-0900 Phone: (732) 594-7765 mailto: bert_gunter@merck.com "The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process." -- George E.P. Box ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

...e command from a file (i.e., using source()), automatic printing does not occur; one must explicitly call print(xyplot(y~x)) . Why do things work this way? Many thanks. Bert Gunter Biometrics Research RY 84-16 Merck & Company P.O. Box 2000 Rahway, NJ 07065-0900 Phone: (732) 594-7765 mailto: bert_gunter at merck.com "The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process." -- George E.P. Box ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

...the winMenu commands. What other such GUIisms are built into ** base ** R (I know about the tcltk package)? Or, better yet, how can I search on or list them? Many thanks. Bert Gunter Biometrics Research RY 84-16 Merck & Company P.O. Box 2000 Rahway, NJ 07065-0900 Phone: (732) 594-7765 mailto: bert_gunter at merck.com "The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process." -- George E.P. Box ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi Bert, Thanks for the suggestions. I tried lme with different control parameters, and also tried using "ML", instaed of "REML", but still got the same answers. Yes, I hope some gurus on this list could give me some hints. Thanks --- "Gunter, Bert" <bert_gunter at merck.com> wrote: > But they are close. This is almost certainly a > numeric issue -- if you set > your control parameters in lme so that you run it > longer (make the stopping > criteria tighter), I'll bet you converge to the same > results. > > ... or it might...

...g is cancelled without choosing a file. This can be easily dealt with via try(), but I would have thought that a NULL or NA return would be the expected behavior. Cheers, Bert Gunter Biometrics Research RY 84-16 Merck & Company P.O. Box 2000 Rahway, NJ 07065-0900 Phone: (732) 594-7765 mailto: bert_gunter@merck.com "The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process." -- George E.P. Box ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

For your consideration: > z [,1] [,2] [1,] 1 NA [2,] 2 NA [3,] 3 NA > colSums(z) [1] 6 NA Correct, according to the documentation > colSums(z,na.rm=T) [1] 6 0 Surprising to me, but, as documented, correctly consistent with apply() and >sum(NULL) [1] 0 The documentation for sum() explicitly notes that the sum of an empty set is 0 by definition, so that users