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...n vernier() which implements the Venier Caliper. Its definition is below. Test it by entering vernier(pi+sqrt(.182)) By following the instructions you should find that the result is x = 3 Units + 5 Tenths + 7 Hundredths which is good enough for anyone. It generalises to non-decimal Vernier Calipers (change the default "n=10", but I leave it to you to work out how to deal with the texts). All best wishes, Ted. vernier <- function(x,n=10) { dS<-1/n; dV<-((n-1)/n)*dS U<-floor(x) plot(c(0,U+2,U+2,0,0),c(0,0,2,2,0),type="l", main="Vernier Caliper...

Hello! If I understand this listserve correctly, I can email this address to get help when I am struggling with code. If this is inaccurate, please let me know, and I will unsubscribe. I have been struggling with the same error message for a while, and I can't seem to get past it. Here is the issue: I am using a data set that uses -1:-9 to indicate various kinds of missing data. I changed

I have finally gotten Ruby 1.8.7 to compile properly with SSL libraries on HPUX so now I am fighting how to get puppet to manage passwords. First I modified the hpux.rb under the providers/user directory to have it use /usr/sam/lbin/useradd.sam to add users and that worked great right off the bat. The problem I am having now is that each time puppet runs it does not seem to be getting the

Dear R users, I am trying to do exact matching on a large dataset (500.000 obs), about equal size of treatment and controll group, with replacement: As for the moment I use the "Match" function of the "Matching" library. I match on 2 covariates and all observations in the treatment group have at least one exact counterpart in the controllgroup. Now I want to introduce