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...n of many of us at least, a very BAD thing as it makes code just about unreadible. On the other hand if we don't give prominence to the fact but just hide it in an obscure footnote, then many people will get bitten first time (but only then) and come complaining to R-help and I will write more tetchy little notes like this one... :-) Bill Venables. -- Bill Venables, Statistician Tel. +61 7 3826 7251 CSIRO Marine Laboratories, Fax. +61 7 3826 7304 Cleveland, Qld, 4163 Email: Bill.Venables at cmis.csiro.au AUSTRALIA...

...a great deal of argy-bargy on this list when the 5.6 update was slow arriving. I don't want to go there, I was happy to see it when it arrived, as I always am when there's an update. The impression I got was that the maintainers and packagers were working as hard as they could and were tetchy about being nagged, being unable to do more. Fair enough, but we need not adopt the status quo entirely. The donate menu on the web site has this to say, (and more) ... "The CentOS team would like to remind you that the primary means of substaining the development of CentOS is via contribu...

...g. To be more specific, the R substitute() is much more limited than the S version and coercion to mode "{", "call" or "function" are unavailable, and function objects are not subsetable. as.call is useless and as.function only exists to issue a rather tetchy error message. For example, as far as I can see it is impossible to write a version of the S function deriv() for R, short of getting down to brass tacks and writing a new primitive into the base code, but even then you can't extend it, of course. 4. I miss find() and data.dump()...

...g. To be more specific, the R substitute() is much more limited than the S version and coercion to mode "{", "call" or "function" are unavailable, and function objects are not subsetable. as.call is useless and as.function only exists to issue a rather tetchy error message. For example, as far as I can see it is impossible to write a version of the S function deriv() for R, short of getting down to brass tacks and writing a new primitive into the base code, but even then you can't extend it, of course. 4. I miss find() and data.dump()...

I recently bought a new UPS, and I''m attempting to use nut to monitor it. Following setup instructions everything seemed to go well until it came to testing the connection, which failed. There is just one serial connector on the computer, so I set it to monitor /dev/ttyS0. Either that is wrong, or communication is failing. I''ve been told to try minicom to monitor it,