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...on which I assume means something like x+x^2+x^3 is there a built in function in R for this? #let's say x <- seq(1:50) y <- seq(1:50) plot(y~x) # the are would be 1250 # I would like to be able to do this but on more complicated numeric sets of points say dissolved oxygen mass thanks stephenr -- Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis [[alternative HTML versio...

Can anyone help with setting up my environment? This all started when I tried to install Aptana Studio 3, and want to use the debugger. I have installed ruby 1.9.2, and rails 3.1.0. When I try to install the ruby-debug-base gem, I get an error that does not make sense to me - it tells me it needs ruby version > 1.8.7. Here is the error message, along with other details. I am running this

Hello - My model has created_at and updated_at which get set automatically, as expected, but the time is 5 hours off. For example, if I create a new record at 7:15:25 AM the created_at time shows 12:15:25. I suspect this has to do with my time zone (Eastern Time, United States). But if I do a Time.now, it shows the correct time. Does the Timestamp class use a different zone than the Time