search for: xyza

...;,"lazy",max=list(sub=0)) which makes sense, but agrep("lasy","lazybc",max=1) agrep("lasy","lazybc",max=0.001) agrep("lasy","layt",max=list(all=1)) and agrep("x",c("x","xy","xyz","xyza"),max=list(insertions=2)) agrep("x",c("x","xy","xyz","xyza"),max=list(deletions=2)) agrep("x",c("x","xy","xyz","xyza"),max=list(all=2)) all give "1 2 3 4" ?? this makes it clear...

I tried to download/compile/install win32-dir, but I couldn''t get it to go. Over a private email Daniel Berger had me... "Curious. What platform are you on exactly? Try modifying the extconf.rb file. Add ''have_library("SHFolder")'' above ''have_library("shell32")''. If that doesn''t work, try uncommenting the other

The documentation for agrep says it uses the Levenshtein edit distance, but it seems to get this wrong in certain cases when there is a combination of deletions and substitutions. For example: > agrep("abcd", "abcxyz", max.distance=1) [1] 1 That should've been a no-match. The edit distance between those strings is 3 (1 substitution, 2 deletions), but agrep matches

Hi, I am an R novice working with financial data. I am developing a portfolio strategy evaluation technique to back-test the performance of our screens; checking how the screened stock would've performed over the period in question. I am using quantmod in R to download the historical data from yahoo and then analyzing it using PerformanceAnalytics. My problem is that, as our screens are done