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Greetings all! A recent news item got me thinking that a problem stated therein could provide a teasing little exercise in R programming. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-17680326 Cambridge University hosts first European 'maths Olympiad' for girls The first European girls-only "mathematical Olympiad" competition is being hosted by Cambridge University. [...] Olympiad co-director, Dr Ceri Fiddes, said competition questions encouraged "clever thinking rather than regurgitating a taught syllabus&quot...

...o issue commands or write a little code; they think it would be too difficult. Perhaps this stems from the Microsoft- and spreadsheet-centered, pointy-clicky culture prevalent in most US public schools. Then again, I have little experience teaching this age group, besides my own kids and my Science Olympiad team, so I respect their concerns and expertise. I don't know yet what software they generally use, but I suspect MS Excel and SPSS. Now I have to put my money where my mouth is. I've offered to visit a high school and introduce R to some fairly advanced students participating in a longit...

...R version.string R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26) -- Ronnen Levinson, Ph.D. scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab The Onion horoscope: Pisces February 19 - March 20 You will soon be unwillingly forced into a flurry of activity when you are chosen to host the 2014 Winter Olympiad.

...es use of this "cxy" parameter to scale the graphics, and I don't find this parameter in help(par). thank you, IOsu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jes?s Mar?a Fr?as Celayeta "Valeu a pena? Tudo vale a pena ENSIA-INRA, Av. des Olympiades, 1 se a alma n?o ? pequena 91744, Massy. FRANCE Quem quer passar al?m do Bojador Fax:intl+33+1+69935185 Tem que passar al?m da dor. Phone:intl+33+1+69935191 Deus ao mar o perigo e abismo deu, Mas nele ? que espelhou o c?u" -----------------------------------------------------------...

...he user dwill627 is apparently not a member of the group with ID 16777230: editshare at es-exp1:~$ getent group 16777230 KUTZTOWN\computeradministrativeaccesslabs:x:16777230:KUTZTOWN\techcreel,KUTZTOWN\techstamm,KUTZTOWN\techeben,KUTZTOWN\techjulian,KUTZTOWN\chemnmr,KUTZTOWN\librarypatron,KUTZTOWN\olympiad,KUTZTOWN\labprint I don't understand why there is this discrepancy. Here's the global configuration as reported by "testparm:" [global] workgroup = STUDENTS realm = STUDENTS.KUTZTOWN.EDU server string = es-exp1 security = ADS password ser...

...ib(x-2); } int main(int argc, char**argv) { int n = argc > 1 ? atol(argv[1]) : 10; std::cout << fib(n) << "\n"; } ----------- Where's the rake I step at?.. I guess the JIT was not really invoked or code was not optimized.. P.S. My best wishes to all countries at Olympiad 2004. --- Valery A.Khamenya -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: fibonacci.cpp URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20040814/53a5746c/attachment.ksh>

I'm probably misunderstanding something in "Writing R Extensions" version 1.0.0. In the chapter on the R API, section 4.7, it is stated that the functions listed in R_ext/Linpack.h are available to users' Fortran code. I am developing a developing a library of ode solvers, based on lsoda and ddassl, and which in turn call some routines from linpack and double precision blas. I