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I added a bibliographic reference to one of my .Rnw documents, to wit: \begin{thebibliography}{9} \bibitem{Jose} Jos{\'{e}} C. Pinheiro and Douglas M. Bates, \emph{Mixed-Effects Models in S and S-PLUS}, Springer, 2000. \end{thebibliography} just before the \end{document}. When I run Sweave on the result these lines disappear without a trace. Is this intentional? Subquestion: is

Dear R-devel, Question: How can I get Sweave to recognize that the \thebibliography section is already created and generate the vignette pdf with a single pass? Or is there a way to let R CMD build know that Sweave needs to be run twice? If (1) is not possible, any suggestions how to auto-generate a crude generic bibtex .bib file from my existing document? Background: I maintain

Dear R-help, I'm using prop.test() to compute a confidence interval for a proportion under R version 2.4.1, as in: prop.test(x = 340, n = 400)$conf [1] 0.8103309 0.8827749 I have two questions: 1) from the source code my understanding is that the confidence interval is computed according to Wilson, E.B. (1927) Probable inference, the law of succession, and statistical inference. J. Am.