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Hello: What should I do regarding code to write an Excel file in a non-Windows platform? The "sos" package [new version of "RSiteSearch"] on R-Forge includes "writeFindFn2xls", which starts with "require(RODBC)". The next line calls "odbcConnectExcel". This works under Windows but fails under Linux and MacOS. What would you suggest we do about this? It currently tests (.Platform$OS.type == "windows"); if(FALSE),...

Hello, All: The "writeFindFn2xls" function in the "sos" package tries to write an Excel file with 3 sheets ('PackageSum2', 'findFn', 'call'). Unfortunately, it is often unable to do this because of configuration problems that are not easy to fix. I've found 3 contributed packages tha...

Hello everybody, I am writing a review paper about State Space models in R, and I would like to cover as many packages as I reasonably can. So far I am familiar with the following tools to deal with SS models: * StructTS, Kalman* (in stats) * packages dse[1-2] * package sspir * package dlm I would like to have some input from users who work with SS models: are there any other packages for SS

Hi all, We know that Hermite polynomial is for Gaussian, Laguerre polynomial for Exponential distribution, Legendre polynomial for uniform distribution, Jacobi polynomial for Beta distribution. Does anyone know which kind of polynomial deals with the log-normal, Student抯 t, Inverse gamma and Fisher抯 F distribution? Thank you in advance! David [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...and I know both the strengths and weaknesses of their software and culture.] * Searching for R packages, not just a single function: CRAN now includes over 10,000 different packages. I know of two facilities for searching for R packages: *** *** x <- findFn('asdf'); writeFindFn2xls(x) *** The initial release of the sos package included a capability to write the search results to an Excel file. However, it's unclear how many users know about this capability. The recently released version 1.4-1 of "sos" modified the HTML display so the first...

...1)) Currently, the HTML starts as follows: findFunction Results call: findFn(string = "spline", maxPages = 1) I want it to start as follows: findFn Results call: (k <- findFn(string = "spline", maxPages = 1)) For a package summary: installPackages(k); writeFindFn2xls(k) When I added "ds <- deparse(substitute(x))" to "print.findFn", I got ds = "x", not "k" from "(k <- findFn('spline', 1))" and from "k" by itself (autoprint) but "x" from "print(k)". Thanks to...

...Site Search web service that Baron has maintained. (2) The RSiteSearch function in the utils package. (3) The sos package, for which I'm the maintainer and lead author. Might someone else be willing to take these over? For me, the "findFn" capability with "writeFindFn2xls" is the fastest literature search for anything statistical. However, I don't have the resources to take over the management of Baron's R Site Search database. He's provided a great service for the R community for many years. I hope we can find a way to keep the syste...

...iteSearch function in the utils >>package. (3) The sos package, for which I'm the maintainer and lead >>author. >> >> >> Might someone else be willing to take these over? >> >> >> For me, the "findFn" capability with "writeFindFn2xls" is the >>fastest literature search for anything statistical. However, I don't >>have the resources to take over the management of Baron's R Site Search >>database. >> >> >> He's provided a great service for the R community for many &g...

...arch for anything statistical uses the sos package as follows: 1. docPages <- findFn('search string') or findFn('{search string}') 2. installPackages(docPages) # this installs packages to enable a more complete package summary 3. writeFindFn2xls(docPages) # this creates an Excel file with 3 sheets: a package summary, the findFn table, and the call. 4. Then I open the Excel file, and review the package summary sheet. I prioritize my search from there based on the number and strength of matches, how close it sounds to wh...

...aron has maintained. (2) The RSiteSearch function in the utils >package. (3) The sos package, for which I'm the maintainer and lead >author. > > > Might someone else be willing to take these over? > > > For me, the "findFn" capability with "writeFindFn2xls" is the >fastest literature search for anything statistical. However, I don't >have the resources to take over the management of Baron's R Site Search >database. > > > He's provided a great service for the R community for many >years. I hope we can...

Hi, All: I'm having trouble getting deparse(substitute(x)) inside print.generic to consistently I'm having trouble getting a print.something to work consistently. Consider the following toy example: # Define an object of class 'dum' k <- 1 class(k) <- 'dum' str(k) # as expected # Define print.dum print.dum <- function(x, ...)

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...>>>package. (3) The sos package, for which I'm the maintainer and lead >>>author. >>> >>> >>> Might someone else be willing to take these over? >>> >>> >>> For me, the "findFn" capability with "writeFindFn2xls" is the >>>fastest literature search for anything statistical. However, I don't >>>have the resources to take over the management of Baron's R Site Search >>>database. >>> >>> >>> He's provided a great service for the...

...on in the utils package. (3) The sos package, for > which I'm the maintainer and lead author. > > > Might someone else be willing to take these over? > > > For me, the "findFn" capability with > "writeFindFn2xls" is the fastest literature search for > anything statistical. However, I don't have the resources > to take over the management of Baron's R Site Search database. > > > He's provided a great service for the R community >...

...so I may be biased.) "findFn" sorts search results to put the package with the most matches first. The print method opens a table of the results in a web browser with hot links to the individual matches. "sos" comes with a vignette, which includes an example of the "writeFindFn2xls" function. This writes a "findFn" object to an Excel file with two sheets: The second is all the matches found. The first is a summary of the packages found with extra information not available via RSiteSearch. Hope this helps. Spencer On 11/22/2010 3:19 AM, G...