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https://gist.github.com/rpietro/6430771 stemDocument function doesn't seem to be working. Tried to look up and a few people have reported the problem, but no solution that I could find. would appreciate any help

I currently have a data set describing human subjects enrolled into an international clinical trial, the name of the hospital enrolling this human subject, the date when the subject was enrolled, and a vector with variables representing characteristics of the site (e.g., number of beds in a hospital). my data sets looks like this: subject hospital date_enrollment hospital_beds 1 hospitalA

Hi all, I will be teaching a graduate-level course on R at CU Boulder next semester. I have a teaching idea that might also help improve the R wiki page... I wanted to know what you all thought of it and wanted to solicit some advice about doing it. During the latter part of the course, students will choose a topic of interest (e.g., hierarchical linear modeling), and show how to achieve it in

Hi, I found a discrepancy between results in R and Stata for a factor analysis with a promax rotation. For Stata: . *rotate, factor(2) promax* (promax rotation) Rotated Factor Loadings Variable | 1 2 Uniqueness -------------+-------------------------------- pfq_amanag~y | -0.17802 0.64161 0.70698 pfq_bwalk_~ø | 0.72569 0.05570

our group at Duke is currently attempting to connect two data sets fed through a web-based system, one containing research questions (i.e., variables positioned with certain roles) and a database of statistical methods. this connection is done informally in a number of R packages and related software such as Rcmdr, R4calc, and Rkward where a variable of a certain type is matched to a certain

Yesterday I just noticed the new document on R and regulatory aspects for biomedical research posted at http://www.r-project.org/doc/R-FDA.pdf Coming from an institution that performs a large number of clinical trials for FDA and being an advocate of R myself, I have found that the following issues usually come up when discussing the use of R for FDA trials: 1. Most FDA submissions come down to