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the NEWS file for R-devel says * Even data-only packages without *R* code need a namespace and so may need to be installed under *R* 2.14.0 or later. but what should this contain? Can it simply be an empty NAMESPACE file? I assume that data does not have to be exported. -Michael -- Michael Friendly Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca Professor, Psychology Dept. York University

Dear list, Some times I want to modify the pdf file which produced by R with illustrator. But when I use Illustrator open the pdf file, it often makes the pdf some little changed. Anyone have some suggestions? Is it better to use other file type, not pdf? Or when I produced the pdf, I should set some other parameters? Thank you

This may be elementary, but I can't find an answer: How can I set up global options for some specific arguments to functions in a package which can be easily changed by the user? This question relates to the selection of colors used in functions in several packages (heplots, genridge), where I want to provide reasonable default values for plots, but allow users to change those defaults

Where does the value 2.2e-16 come from in p-values for chisq tests such as those reported below? > Anova(cm.mod2) Analysis of Deviance Table (Type II tests) Response: Freq LR Chisq Df Pr(>Chisq) B 11026.2 1 < 2.2e-16 *** W 7037.5 1 < 2.2e-16 *** Age 886.6 8 < 2.2e-16 *** B:W 3025.2 1 < 2.2e-16 *** B:Age 1130.4 8 < 2.2e-16 *** W:Age 332.9 8 < 2.2e-16 *** --- Signif.

[Env: Win XP] I've just upgraded from R 2.12.2 to R 2.13.1. As part of my upgrade process, I typically install some in-development packages from R-Forge that are not on cran. But for the first time, it doesn't work. e.g., > install.packages("p3d", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org") trying URL

CRAN task views are useful, but they seem difficult to write and maintain because the XML format is rather limited (no sectioning) and the <packagelist> must be maintained manually. They are also difficult to read because the generated html and .css used are extremely basic, giving an overly dense page. Are there any markdown-like tools for writing a CTV? Is it possible to apply a

A simple question, but I can't find something to do what I want: Given: a vector of numbers, like lambda <- c(0, 0.005, 0.01, 0.02, 0.04, 0.08) Desired: format them in minimal space for use as plot labels, ie, without leading or tailing 0s. For this example: lambdaf <- c("0", .005", ".01", ".02", ".04", ".08") -- Michael

[Env: WinXp, R 2.9.2] In my .Rprofile, I define a number of utility functions I'd like to have available in my R session, but don't want them to be *normally* listed by ls(), or more importantly, saved if I save my session variables/functions. How can I do this? -- Michael Friendly Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca Professor, Psychology Dept. York University Voice: 416

I have a list of vectors, all forced to be the same length: testlist <- list( shape=c(0, 0, 2), cell.fill=c("red","blue","green"), back.fill=rep("white",3), scale.max=rep(100,3) ) > str(testlist) List of 4 $ shape : num [1:3] 0 0 2 $ cell.fill: chr [1:3] "red" "blue" "green" $ back.fill: chr [1:3]

I'm looking for an R equivalent of Beaton's (1964) Sweep algorithim for partial inversion of a matrix by pivoting. It implemented in SAS/IML as sweep(matrix, indices), described here http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/imlug/59656/HTML/default/langref_sect266.htm and here for python http://adorio-research.org/wordpress/?p=262 -- Michael Friendly Email: friendly AT yorku

Under Windows (and maybe others) you can use file.choose() as a substitute for an explicit file= argument in most places. Is there an analog for what I'll call dir.choose(), so that I can say setwd(dir.choose()) thx, -Michael -- Michael Friendly Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca Professor, Psychology Dept. York University Voice: 416 736-5115 x66249 Fax: 416 736-5814 4700 Keele

Is there an R implementation of a scheme for automatic smoothing parameter selection with loess, e.g., by minimizing one of the AIC/GCV statistics discussed by Hurvich, Simonoff & Tsai (1998)? Below is a function that calculates the relevant values of AICC, AICC1 and GCV--- I think, because I to guess from the names of the components returned in a loess object. I guess I could use

In an R graphic, I'm using cond.col <- c("green", "yellow", "red") to represent a quantitative variable, where green means 'OK', yellow represents 'warning' and red represents 'danger'. Using these particular color names, in B/W, red is darkest and yellow is lightest. I'd like to find color designations to replace yellow and

I'm trying to form contingincy tables among a set of character variables which were read from a .csv file and have missing represented as "". I want to exclude the missing levels from the table. > levels(CPIC) [1] "" "N" "Y" > levels(Manix) [1] "" "N" "Y" > xtabs(~CPIC + Manix, exclude=c("",NA))

I'm sure this is probably simple, but I can't find an answer... I have a data frame (Galton's data on heights of parents and children), in grouped form, parent child frequency 73.5 72.2 1 73.5 73.2 3 72.5 68.2 1 72.5 69.2 2 72.5 70.2 1 72.5 71.2 2 72.5 72.2 7 72.5 73.2 2 72.5 74.2 4 71.5 65.2 1 71.5 66.2 3 71.5 67.2 4 71.5 68.2 3 71.5 69.2 5 71.5 70.2 10 ... and need the ungrouped

Using R 2.13.1, I am now getting the following NOTE when I run R CMD check on my HistData package * checking for unstated dependencies in examples ... NOTE 'library' or 'require' calls not declared from: gplots sp Under R 2.12.x, I didn't get these notes. I have ~ 25 .Rd files in this package, and AFAICS, every example uses library or require for the functions used;

== Summary == * Problem: BibTeX entries extracted from R packages via citation() require too much manual editing to be of general use. * Proposal: Date: fields should be made mandatory in package DESCRIPTION files, perhaps beginning with warnings from R CMD check * Proposal: Package authors should be encouraged to use a (new) Contributors: field in the DESCRIPTION file rather than packing all

I have a collection of .csv files in a directory, and want to read them into R data.frames whose names are the same as the file names, without the .csv extension e.g., from > (files <- list.files(pattern="*.csv")) [1] "Allstar.csv" "AllstarFull.csv" [3] "Appearances.csv" "AwardsManagers.csv" [5]

Now that R 3.0.0+ supports non-Sweave vignettes, R-exts \S 1.4.2 seems to imply that it is possible to include both Sweave and knitr vignettes in a single package. I'm wondering if anyone has tried this and/or if there are some hidden gotchas putting this into practice, and concerned about creating problems with CRAN checks if I try this. Consider two vignettes: pkg/vignettes/vign1.Rnw,

In the example below, from http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~joseff/rstudy/summer2010_ggplot2_intro.html I'd like to make (a) the fitted line thicker and (b) change the background fill color for the confidence envelope around each fitted line to a low-alpha transparent version of the same color used for the separate fitted lines for GENDER, rather than grey for both. How can I do this?