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...on on writing packages. Apologies for the elementary level of these questions, and thanks in advance for your help! ~Dan Rabosky Dan Rabosky Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 237 Corson Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY14853-2701 USA 607 254 4262 (office) 607 592 4636 (cell) DLR32 at cornell.edu web: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/evb/Graduates_Dan.htm

...error occur within a private function, it may be very difficult for the user to decipher the nature of the problem. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. ~Dan Rabosky Dan Rabosky Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 237 Corson Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY14853-2701 USA DLR32 at cornell.edu web: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/evb/Graduates_Dan.htm

Hello - I am having a problem with the function 'integrate'. I am running R on OSX (R 2.5.1). I am trying to suppress the error message when 'integrate' attempts to integrate across a parameter set giving a non-finite function value. I'm using it in a MCMC / simulated annealing algorithm, and it is entirely possible that some parameter sets will give non-

Hello... Is it possible to use "density" or another kernel density estimator to identify the mode of a distribution? When I use 'density', the resulting density plot of my data is much cleaner than the original noisy histogram, and I can clearly see the signal that I am interested in. E.g., suppose my data is actually drawn from two or more normal (or other)

Hi I have a question about the creation of variables within lists in R. I am running simulations and am interested in two parameters, ESM and ESMM (the similarity of these names is important for my question). I do simulations to generate ESMM, then plug these values into a second simulation function to get ESM: x <- list() for (i in 1:nsimulations) { x$ESMM[i] <- do_simulation1()

Hello... I would like to use R for 'pipelining' data among several programs. I'm wondering how I can use R to call another program, feed that program a set of parameters, and retrieve the output. E.g., I have an executable that, when opened, prompts the user to enter a set of parameters. The program then executes & prompts the user for the name of an output file. I need to