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2002 Apr 11
2
Obtaining names of ``...'' arguments.
This may be an FAQ, but a (perfunctory) search failed to turn it up. Suppose I have a function foo(...){<something>} and I want to obtain, inside foo, the names of items comprising the ``...''. E.g. if I call foo(melvin,clyde,irving) I want to be able to loop through the ``...'' and successively obtain the tex...
2006 Apr 11
1
Specifying an appropriate error term in a hierarchical regression
...to get this output in a single analysis (except for http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~baron/rpsych/rpsych.html, but Kirk doesn't talk about these tests in terms of Error strata, so it's a little hard to figure out the correspondence). Also, the documentation on the Error term in ?aov is rather perfunctory. There's no mention of the "/" operator, for example. ex = scan() 3 6 3 3 1 2 2 2 5 6 5 6 2 3 4 3 7 8 7 6 4 5 4 3 7 8 9 8 10 10 9 11 a = factor(rep(paste("a", 1:2, sep = ""), each = 16)); b = factor(rep(paste("b", 1:8, sep...
2017 Apr 12
7
humor (was Re: OT: systemd Poll)
...s made for things like init were focussed on this. In 1995 is was common for server platforms to have 32Mb ram whereas the kernel alone in my PC here at home is consuming just over 500MB. It seems reasonable that software components built in 1997 will not be fit for purpose in 2017. * According to perfunctory google search: http://www.statisticbrain.com/average-historic-price-of-ram/
2017 Apr 12
2
humor (was Re: OT: systemd Poll)
On Wed, April 12, 2017 8:07 am, Alice Wonder wrote: > On 04/12/2017 05:59 AM, Leroy Tennison wrote: >> <humor for the day>Why don't we discuss something ***less*** >> controversial, like politics or religion?</humor for the day> >> > > Even when I'm the one complaining (and I don't about systemd), I'm > always reminded of some TV clip I saw
2017 Apr 12
0
humor (was Re: OT: systemd Poll)
...nit were focussed on this. In 1995 is was common for server > platforms to have 32Mb ram whereas the kernel alone in my PC here at home > is consuming just over 500MB. It seems reasonable that software components > built in 1997 will not be fit for purpose in 2017. > > * According to perfunctory google search: > http://www.statisticbrain.com/average-historic-price-of-ram/ a) I was speaking in much more general terms than just software. b) Stuff built then will run unbelievable fast on modern systems - and no, in the nineties, we were not manually swapping. c) If it fulfils its in...