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hi all can anyone tell me what is head() function in r. what is it's utility? thanks in advance --------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I am sorry to ask such a simple question, but my knowledge of programming language is extremely limited, and I couldn't find the answer in any of the normal resources. I want to do a for loop in which m takes on the values 1, 5, 10, 15, 20. What is the syntax for doing that? I had been doing a loop for m in 1:20, but I only want those values above. Thanks, Brian

dear R group: I have the probably fairly common problem that I would like to have one code.R file do different things if it is invoked from a symbolic link, which should be easy to uncover. $ ln -s code.R code-0.R $ ln -s code.R code-1.R $ R CMD BATCH code-1.R what needs to be in code-1.R to put code-1.r into a character vector? help appreciated. regards, /ivo welch PS : I read

Do you know of a reference that discusses alternative choices for plotting positions for a normal probability plot? The documentation for qqnorm says it calls ppoints, which returns qnorm((1:m-a)/(m+1-2*a)) with "a" = ifelse(n<=10, 3/8, 1/2)? The help pages for qqnorm and ppoints just refer to Becker, Chambers and Wilks (1988) The New S Language (Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole),