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...ll","medium","large")) ##ordered() also would do, but is not necessary for this > table(y) y small medium large 7 3 2 Naturally, this is just my opinion, and I understand why lots of smart people find factors irritating (at least!). So contrary opinions cheerily welcomed. But perhaps these comments might be helpful to those who have been "bitten" by factors or just wonder what all the fuss is about. ** Another advantage is reduced storage space, I believe. Please correct if wrong. Cheers, Bert -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatisti...

...say, it didn't help a bit. When I try install.packages("rgdal",lib="/home/rolf/Rlib") I get exactly the same error as before. I.e. > undefined symbol: CPLQuietErrorHandler Why do these things always happen to *me*? Said he, plaintively. cheers (not very cheerily), Rolf -- Technical Editor ANZJS Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276

When trying to delete or copy over certain files on my Samba server, Windows hangs for some time and then gives "access denied". I can delete these files directly from the server, so it's a Samba or Windows problem. There seems to be nothing special about these files, other than that Samba doesn't like touching them. Upon checking the Samba logs, I find this message or

I've been tweaking code for several days on and off in R, cut and pasting in from a text editor (I just leave them open all the time). I think I got something that was usable but then a powersurge tripped the fuses and unfortunately the machine I was working on doesn't have a UPS. Does R hold the command data in cache some place? I've purposefully not opened R since the crash so

I previously sent a cri de coeur about this problem to the r-help list but so far have not managed to extract a solution. So I am trying here. (Uh, Ubuntu *is* a "special instance" of Debian, isn't it?) The problem is that I cannot install rgdal, and I need it. Rather desperately. I do: install.packages("rgdal",lib="/home/rolf/Rlib") and get the error