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I've been a R-user for quite some time. The graphic on the home page looks a bit in need of polish so I applied some antialiased transformations that Peter Dalgaard has previously posted to R-help for improving graphic quality. I had to change the margins a bit, but here is what it looks like: http://www.broad.mit.edu/~finnyk/Rhome.jpg Personally, I think it looks much better. Because

Dear List, Below is a simple, standard loss model that takes into account the terms of an insurance policy: deductible <- 15 coverage.limit <- 75 insurance.threshold <- deductible + coverage.limit tmpf <- function() { loss <- rlnorm(rpois(1, 3), 2, 5) sum(ifelse(loss > insurance.threshold, loss - coverage.limit, pmin(loss, deductible))) } net <- replicate(1000000, tmpf())

I'm trying to build and check a new package. But keep getting the warning: * checking PDF version of manual ... WARNING LaTeX errors when creating PDF version. This typically indicates Rd problems. When I go into the package.Rcheck directory, package-manual.pdf is created. however if I do a pdflatex on package.tex I get the following: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13

Hi, I'm trying to understand the complete linkage method in hclust. Can anyone provide a breakdown of the formula (p9 of the pdf documentation) or tell me what the "sup" operator does/means? thanks in advance Tom [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...when no matched user in secrets Product: rsync Version: 3.1.1 Platform: x64 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: major Priority: P5 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned at samba.org ReportedBy: ryan at finnie.org QAContact: rsync-qa at samba.org Created attachment 9850 --> https://bugzilla.samba.org/attachment.cgi?id=9850 Strace output of infinite loop Hello. Given a test module: [test-module] path = /tmp auth users = * secrets file = /tmp/rsyncd.secrets and secrets file: good...

I would like to be able to randomise presence-absence (i.e. binary) matrices whilst keeping both the row and column totals constant. Is there a function in R that would allow me to do this? I'm working with vegetation presence-absence matrices based on field observations. The matrices are formatted to have sites as rows and species as columns. The presence of a species on a site is

Hi, The following command: R CMD Rd2pdf --no-preview --output=./tmp.pdf --title=test genefu-package.Rd run against this file: https://hedgehog.fhcrc.org/bioconductor/trunk/madman/Rpacks/genefu/man/genefu-package.Rd (username: readonly; password: readonly) produces a very verbose error (see below) with R version 2.15.0 alpha (2012-03-07 r58622). The .Rd file has these lines in it: Version: \tab

Please help me evaluate a "dynamic variable" as show in the code snippet below. # regular variable a = c(1,2,3,4) # dynamic variable set at runtime DV = "a" eval(DV) --> a eval(eval(DV)) --> a # what I want something_goes_here(DV) --> 1,2,3,4 Can someone teach me how to do this? Thanks very much. - Bobby