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Hello, R users, I am a very beginner of R and tried read.csv to import an excel file after saving an excel file as csv. But it added alternating rows of fictitious NA values after row number 16. When I applied read.delim, there were trailing several commas at the end of each row after row number 16 instead of NA values. Appreciate your help. Kyong [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hello, R users, I applied segmented regression method contributed by Muggeo and got different slope estimates depending on the initial break points. The results are listed below and I'd like to know what is a reasonable approach handling this kinds of problem. I think applying various initial break points is certainly not a efficient approach. Is there any other methods to deal with segmented

Dear R users, I'm using R 2.1.0 with Windows 2000. In the middle of a R session, an error message pops up saying Rgui.exe generated errors and shuts down the R session. How can I correct this problem? Appreciate your help. Kyong [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

These seem to be outside the scope of the standard documentation so I figured I'd see if I get a response. I've donned my asbestos suit in case virtual flame throwers are deployed... ;) 1. There are two parameters "nis homedir" and "homedir map" that seem locked to NIS although it would be extremely nice it they just worked in conjunction with automount/autofs

I really appreciate all the helpful answers from Richard Müller, Marc Schwartz, Adaikalavan Ramasamy, Vito Ricci. I tried Marc's simple suggestion which was to copy only the data area and paste to a new excel sheet, and that solved my problem. I'll try other suggestions while I'm learning more about R. Unedited answers are provided below followed by my question. Thanks again. Kyong

I appreciate to Roger Koenker, Achim Zeileis and Vito Muggeo for their informative answers. Listed below is unedited replies I got followed by the question I posted. Kyong 1. Roger Koenker: You might try rqss() in the quantreg package. It gives piecewise linear fits for a nonparametric form of median regression using total variation of the derivative of the fitted function as a penalty