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...& long term) electricity forecast, we are now using too many & too expensive pieces of licensed software: SAS, SPSS, EViews. This "sedimentation" is due to the fact that my predecessors in the past used different consultant companies to manage each procedure. Having attended the useR2004! Conference with the aim of assessing if R ALONE could "glue" all those fragmented and isolated procedures, I'm almost convinced now that YES it could do the job! Now - to start with - a first problem to solve: we have to comply with the Tramo-seats closed-source procedure (http://w...

...y > forecast, we are now using too many & too expensive pieces of licensed > software: SAS, SPSS, EViews. This "sedimentation" is due to the fact that > my predecessors in the past used different consultant companies to manage > each procedure. > Having attended the useR2004! Conference with the aim of assessing if R > ALONE could "glue" all those fragmented and isolated procedures, I'm almost > convinced now that YES it could do the job! > Now - to start with - a first problem to solve: > we have to comply with the Tramo-seats closed-sourc...

Hi, I have been using R for a few months now and I am confident that the language has everything I will need to complete my PhD. I can create functions, script files and packages, but I would like to write my programs more efficiently (maybe using OO). Can anyone recommend a good book on the "art" of good R programming? Kind Regards, Sam.

Dear R users, I know of the possibility to import bitmaps via the nice pixmap library. But if you later on create a PDF it is somewhat disappointing to have such graphics bitmapped. Is there a trick (via maps?) to import a vector graphic and have them plotted onto a graph? My searching attempts in the searchable r-help archive did not seem to result in anything useful... Cheers, hinrich