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Dear all, Fernando Colchero, Owen Jones and Maren Rebke, Max Plank Institute for Demographic Research, present BaSTA -Bayesian Survival Trajectory Analysis. Fernando, Owen and Maren have put together this beautiful video exploring research on ageing and and how to deal with incomplete data. To install BaSTA http://basta.r-forge.r-project.org BaSTA users mailing list,

Hi all, I am very new to R and this might be a simple question but I have looked everywhere you suggest before writing to you. I am trying to change font type from san-serif to a serif (Times New Romans) on all labels and axis of my boxplot. I have used this function in other plots before, e.g.: plot(residuals~lnlifespan, data=mydata, pch=psymb, font=6, xlab="ln reproductive

Dear All, I am an Italian researcher in Economics. I work with large sample data. I need to increase the memory in R-project in order to upload a file ".dta". How can I do this? Thank you. graziella -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/memory-increasing-tp3396511p3396511.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

< Does anyone know why they're called random deviates, as opposed to random numbers?> Others will probably give you some technical reason about random numbers can be considered as random deviates from a mean (I think at least the 1875 Galton paper at http://www.mugu.com/galton/ uses similar terminology (I'm not claiming this is the earliest use - just the easiest to access at the

Can someone recommend a more sophisticated way to annotate heatmaps than the ColSideColors argument of heatmap and heatmap.2? In particular, I would like to be able to annotate columns with more than one piece of information, like in Figure 1 of the article at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/117905619/HTMLSTART / doi:10.1002/hep.22256. Some example data and a heatmap:

Hi I am trying to compile compiz 0.5.0 on SLED 10 SP1. I have installed all the requirements as per the docs but when I run ./configure I get the following error: checking for COMPIZ... configure: error: Package requirements (libpng xcomposite xfixes xdamage xrandr xinerama ice sm

I have downloaded compiz-0.2.0 and tried to compile it. The INSTALL file talks about autgen.sh, but I am unable to locate it. I tried ./configure but it complains about a number of missing packages. Is there any docs on how to compile compiz on SLED 10 ? I have searched in a lot of places, but have not been able to dig up anything. A detailed list of what packages is required (and where to locate