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I am new to R and am having difficulty merging 2 data sets, both of which have the same 30 variables and about 2,000 records. I've looked high and low—Paul Johnson's help page, through some of the 5,420 (yikes!) results for “merge” on the R list archives, and google searches—and I'm getting nowhere, so I thought I'd ask. When I try to merge by the ID variable: >

Hi all, I was trying garchFIt() of fSeries to fit volatility of monthly log returns of S&P500. I tried residuals of normal, student t, skew normal, skew t. But all innovations except normal got exaxtly same coefficients, even if I changed their parameters of skew and shape. Is this correct for the data or something wrong? I am attaching the code, thank you. Muster #GARCH analysis of monthly return rm(list=ls(all=TRUE)) sp500 <- read.csv('s&p_m.csv', header=TRUE) sp500 <- sp50...

I (still) use RCS, and not CVS, for my own projects. R CMD check does not like the 0444 file permissions on files check into RCS. I conjecture that this stems from desire to have the installed files in a state in which they can be edited, but I might be off base ... In case my conjecture holds, would it be possible to relax the restriction during R CMD check, but then install the files as 0644