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Hello Does anybody happen to know if it is possible to use the survey package to estimate a covariance matrix from a complex survey? I have design weights and clusters (no strata), and want to get a covariance matrix with preferably the effective sample size or else an estimate of the variance-covariance matrix of the covariance matrix ("asymptotic covariance matrix"). Is this

...and slow to me, but it is the only one I can get to work right now. However, I would rather not use it. In short, my question is: what is the proper or preferred method of solving this problem, and how do I find out how to apply it? Thank you very much for your attention. Best regards, Daniel Oberski University of Tilburg / European Social Survey daniel.oberski at gmail.com

Dear all, I am trying to install R on a (Linux Debian) machine where I do not have root access. So far I succeeded in compiling from source and running R. But I would really like to be able to use "make install" and to be able to install certain packages such as foreign. Now these actions require permissions for directories that I do not have. In particular I would like R home to be

Dear R developers I am running an instrumented build of R 2.6.1 on ubuntu, compiled with option configure --with-valgrind-instrumentation=3. If run valgrind R then I get all sorts of warnings. I was wondering whether I should worry about them or not. First, when I open R as follows: $R -d "valgrind --tool=memcheck --leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes" --vanilla I get a whole