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Hello all, I'm using R1.7.1 on Linux, generating sammon-optimized MDS plots from distance matrices. This is a calculation I run routinely, often on sample sets of up to 100 samples. This time, with three samples, the sammon function returned an error (shown below), which I tracked down to the cmdscale function it uses to find a starting configuration. In short, cmdscale is returning NaN

Apologize ahead of time if this has been asked before. Without using external commands, can puppet back-up files and directories to the puppetmaster server? If I delete or change a file, I can back the file, but all I want to do is to take a snap-shot of some configurations. If I can''t do it natively, has anyone created a script that does so using external commands (such as tar, gzip,

Should a page in the wiki be created to describe a good common.pp? For example, Luke states in the documentation for ''Exec'' that "...there is a strong tendency to use exec to do whatever work Puppet can''t already do; while this is obviously acceptable (and unavoidable) in the short term, it is highly recommended to migrate work from exec to native Puppet types as