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A question for R (and perhaps S and SPlus) historians. Does anyone know the reason for the inconsistency in the way that the action that should be taken when data are missing is specified? There are several variants, na.action, na.omit, "T", TRUE, etc. I know that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of a small mind, but consistency can make things easier. My question is not meant

In asp you have an Application built-in object, which works just like the Session hash, but it lets you share information among all users of a given application. which is the rails equivalent??? and if there isn''t, how would you implement such a thing ? (there would be concurrency issues to take into account, in fact asp''s application object has some lock and unlock methods

Dear UseRs, Could someone explain to me why the default behaviour of rank() is to assign the largest rank to missing data > rank(c(3, 1, NA)) [1] 2 1 3 as opposed to what I would hazard would be the expected 2, 1, NA? Despite consistency being the hobgoblin of little minds, of two closely related functions one handles NAs in the same way (order()) but another one doesn't (sort()).

I am new at setting up Samba3. I had heard that the name share name is supposed to be limited to 8 characters or less; i.e., [home] or [configs], etc. Is this correct, or can the name be longer? Also, are there any specific characters that are not allowed? I am not planning on using any, but I was just wondering. Ciao! -- Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net A foolish consistency is the

Some suggestions for the recommendations on http://reactor-core.org/ogg-tag-recommendations.html: Add in a table of contents. Please. Rename the title to "Vorbis-style Comment Field Recommendations" (change capitalization to taste) to reflect that FLACs and Speex files could be tagged according to this recommendation. Do note that not just Ogg (or, for that matter, .ogg) files can use

Hi, I will probably have to design an e-mail (and other components) infrastructure for a small ISP soon (WISP). I'm doing some research to determine which components would be best to offer e-mail services to their client and allow the staff to manage accounts easily. I usually use virtual machines a lot for isolation and easy backups and migration (when a hardware node is

Howdy, Is there a method to get the number of elements in an aggregation? Are the results stored in an aggregation guaranteed to be in any type of order? Thanks for any insight, - Ryan -- UNIX Administrator http://daemons.net/~matty