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...ne until it first executes "require ''ferret''". At that point, my definition of the class "Weight" disappears and I get "uninitialized constant Weight" errors. I went through my Ferret gem and changed the Ferret::Search::Weight class to Ferret::Search::FWeight, and all works now. Has anyone else come across an issue of a library trampling namespace? I have tried putting the indexing code in a number of places within my app, and "load"ing Ferret rather then "require"ing it, but loading tends to fail to load Ferret. It seems that Rail...

Hi all -- I'm trying to use R for my "Analysis of Categorical Data" class, but I can't figure out how to do a weighted linear trend analysis. I have a table of categorical data, to which I've assigned weights to the rows and columns. I need to calculate r and M^2, which is apparently done in SAS using "PROC FREQ" and in STATA using "correlate var1 var2