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...;s functions will meet nearly every program evaluator's needs. However, most consultants in my geographic region have no programming background, and instead have used (and have been trained to use) statistical programs with GUIs such as SPSS. Thanks in advance. Regards, Charles R. Partridge, Ph.D. C.H.I.P. Evaluation Consulting Columbus, Ohio USA cpartridge@chipeval.org [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...usually have multiple independent and dependent variables in each model along with covariates. I have historically utilized latent growth curve structural equation models, but would like to include random effects in the model. Does R have the ability to run such analyses? Regards, Charles R. Partridge Evaluation Specialist Center for Learning Excellence The John Glenn Institute for Public Service & Public Policy 807 Kinnear Road, Room 214 Columbus, Ohio 43212-1421 Phone: 614.292.2419 FAX: 614.247.6447 Email: cpartridge at hec.ohio-state.edu http://cle.osu.edu CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This me...

We have a LAN network consisting mostly of Win95 machines, with a couple of NT boxes and 3 Linux-based Samba servers. Throw in a VAX running Pathworks and a partridge in a pear tree. Anyway, it seems that since Monday all three of the Samba boxes have dissapeared from the browse lists (from the POV of the Windows users). Typing in \\server only gives a "Network name not found error." However, each of the samba servers can mount shares from the other...

Hi, I am a COBOL programmer and I am busy teaching myself Rails and Ruby. In COBOL I can code this conditional If x = 1 next sentence else .......................... The "next sentence" statement enables me to get out of the conditional. How would I code the same thing in Ruby? In C you could use break but I understand that Ruby has no break statement. Regards, Paul

...rnaled and hardened so they recover clean from power failures, what point is there in having your UPS initiate a controlled shutdown N seconds beforehand? I sure don't see enough of one to justify a multi-layer architecture involving three concurrent processes, four configuration files, and a partridge in a pear tree. NUT, as it is now, seems to me to be a textbook case of massive overengineering and overkill based on outdated assumptions. One possible reply is that filesystem hardening sometimes fails. But that objection implies the right solution, which is to fix the filesystem hardening rat...

Hi, I have two dataframes: The first, df1, contains some missing data: cola colb colc cold cole 1 NA 5 9 NA 17 2 NA 6 NA 14 NA 3 3 NA 11 15 19 4 4 8 12 NA 20 The second, df2, contains the following: cola colb colc cold cole 1 1.4 0.8 0.02 1.6 0.6 I'm wanting all missing data in df1$cola to be replaced by the value of df2$cola.

Not sure if it''s been posted yet, my email is currently down... http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager/archives/2007/10/suns_zfs_is_clo.html Interesting piece. This is the second post from Yager that shows solaris in a pretty good light. I particularly like his closing comment: "If you haven''t checked out ZFS yet, do, because it will eventually become ubiquitously implemented