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Hi all... My students were conflating grepping for a value in a vector to get the index, and then removing it with [-index], for instance like this: set.seed(17) v <- rnorm(20) s <- v[-1.18] They were trying to remove the 12th value in v, which is -1.18 or so. But the result is, as documented in ?Extract, to coerce 1.18 to the next lowest integer, and remove the 1st value of v, not the

Hi folks, I''m working on building up a puppet infrastructure, and I''m having the darndest time putting it all together. I''ve read through as many of the docs as I can find. I''ve read the best practices guide. And I''m still not grokking how to do what I want to do in puppet. I''ve spend enough time with cfengine that I''m sure part of my...

Hi, everyone. I''ve been using Rails for a little while now, and am really, really enjoying the experience. I''m having the darndest time trying to send e-mail whose contents are in HTML, and which includes a PDF attachment. Following various instructions (in the Pragmatic book, as well as at <http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToSendEmailsWithActionMailer>), I''m able to send HTML e-mail *or* a PDF at...

I'm currently working on writing up some documentation for some of my code, but am having the darndest time coding in equations. For example, the equation in the following: \details{ Calculated the R Squared for observed endogenous variables in a structural equation model, as well as several other useful summary statistics about the error in thoe variables. R Squared values are calculated a...

We have a machine that is trying its darndest to house a linux kernel cvs repository. The machine is a dual 733mhz p3 netfinity of some kind. 512M of mem. Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 16484504 4015876 11631240 26% / /dev/sda2 31079 3199 26276 11% /boot...