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This may be offtopic to Rails, but what are people doing to find records based on fuzzy string matches? For example, if you wanted to find a Person with name "David Heinemeier Hansson" but searched using the string "Dave Hansson". Currently I am find_by_sql that calls the PostgreSQL function "levenshtein(string1, string2)" which returns results with a score

...kg package (by require(OtherPkg)) is of a certain version or later. First of all, I believe that the check should be done in .First.lib(), correct? To check for the correct version of [R] I would guess that R.Version()$major and R.Version()$minor could be used to retrieve the version. Is there any prewritten function to compare two version strings; "1.2.1" is before "1.2.10"? What is the easiest way to retrieve the version string of a certain package. Should one find the path to the package, then load the DESCRIPTION file and parse it? Thanks a lot Henrik Bengtsson Dept. of Mathe...

> Assuming you're using icecast2, you can get stats and "now playing" > information using XSL. There are a couple of examples shipped with > icecast2. I am using Icecast 2. I found the status.xsl files, but to be honest I'm not quite sure what to do with them > As for YP servers, there is one at http://www.oddsock.org/icecast2yp/ and > another at

Hi, How to mark points on x axis of a graph keeping x axis as constant and changing y from y1 to y2 respectively. I want to highlight the area from y1 to y2. Any suggestions Thank you Jeet [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, I'd like to use R to do what excel pivot tables do, and plot results. I've never used R before, and I've managed to do something, but it's quite a lot of code to do something simple. I can't help but think I'm not "Doing it the R way". I could be using R for the wrong thing, in which case, please tell me off. I was hoping something like plot(by(t,