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AA> In 2008, I have spotted some errors in a package, one which is AA> likely to have many users (I am not one myself). The more serious AA> errors are in the documentation, since they lead to a completely AA> distorted interpretation of the outcome; in addition, there is (at AA> least) one programming error which produces some wrong AA> computations. A few weeks later, the

Dear R-help list members, I have created a package 'mnormt' with facilities for the multivariate normal and t distributions. The core part is simply an interface to Fortran routines by Alan Genz for computing the integral of two densities over rectangular regions, using an adaptive integration method. Other R functions compute densities and generate random numbers. The starting

In the document "R Data Import/Export", section "Output to connections", there is the following portion of code: ## convert decimal point to comma in output, using a pipe (Unix) zz <- pipe(paste("sed s/\\./,/ >", "outfile"), "w") cat(format(round(rnorm(100), 4)), sep = "\n", file = zz) close(zz) ## now look at the output

Dear List-members, to download a file from the net, the function download.file(..) does the job. However, before embarking on the download, I would like to find out how large the file is. Is there a way to know it? Most easily, this question has been asked before, but I am new to the list. Regards, with thanks in advance, Adelchi Azzalini ---- Adelchi Azzalini <azzalini at

There seems to exist peculiar cases where optim does not take care of constraints on the parameters to be optimized over. The call to optim is of the form opt <- optim(cp, fn=sn.dev, gr=sn.dev.gh, method="L-BFGS-B", lower=c(-Inf, 1e-10, -0.99527), upper=c( Inf, Inf, 0.99527), control=control, X=X, y=y, hessian=FALSE) The code has worked fine

Dear R helpers, I need to find out maximized log likelihoods, parameters estimates and standard errors (in parentheses) of r largest-order statistics model, with different values of r by using the function rlarg.fit. I want to specify required number of order statistics to the model. I attached my data file with this mail.please help me. Ruposh --- r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch wrote:

Dear Prof Azzalini, You have an interesting example of recursive use of uniroot(). [re-cited at the end] However, note that R currently has the same problem as S-plus: Uniroot() doesn't work reliably, recursively. When you found it to be better, you were just lucky. The relevant file in R's source, src/main/optimize.c says /* WARNING : As things stand, these routines should

If I define this function R> ask <- function (message = "Type in datum") eval(parse(prompt = paste(message, ": ", sep = ""))) the following is produced as expected on a Linux/debian machine R> ask("input") input: 3 [1] 3 R> ask("input") input: 3:6 [1] 3 4 5 6 R> ask("input") input: c(3,6) [1] 3 6 If I

On 17/11/2017 10:47 AM, Adelchi Azzalini wrote: > Since I have updated my Linux system, and consequently re-installed R, I > am unable to see HTML documentation which I used to access via a web > browser. To be more specific, my R installation is declared to be here: > > > R RHOME > /usr/local/lib/R > > However, if I look at a location such as >

Since I have updated my Linux system, and consequently re-installed R, I am unable to see HTML documentation which I used to access via a web browser. To be more specific, my R installation is declared to be here: > R RHOME /usr/local/lib/R However, if I look at a location such as /usr/local/lib/R/library/base/html this contains only two entries File: 00Index.html File: R.css

[Hope this is the right list where to send...] An attempt to update package 'mnormt' involves the addition of a small new function called 'pd.solve'. When I come to the package checking stage, an error occurs in parsing pd.solve.Rd. The full transcript of the outcome is copied below (it includes details on my installation) but the critical point is where the \examples{} section

Hi, I've estimated a simple kernel density of a univariate variable with density(), but after I would like to find out the CDF at specific values. How can I do it? thanks for your help, with it I am very close to finish my first little bit more serious work in R, Viktor

I have written the following function to calculate the weighted mean difference for univariate data (see http://www.xycoon.com/gini_mean_difference.htm for a related formula). Unsurprisingly, the function is slow (compared to sd or mad) for long vectors. I wonder if there's a way to make the function faster, short of creating an external C function. Thanks very much for your advice. gmd

Hello please note that the code at https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-August/110892.html to compute indices of skewness and kurtosis for the skew-t distribution is not correct. It has been kindly pointed out that i made some error in this code, which was a bit too quickly copied from the paper. The 'sn' package already contains a facility for computing the cumulants, namely

The sm package (by Adrian Bowman and Adelchi Azzalini) implements a variety of nonparametric smoothing techniques, centred on nonparametric regression for one or two covariates and density estimation for up to three variables. A new version of the package is now available on CRAN. In an earlier unannounced version (2.1), a variety of methods of bandwidth selection were added, with default

The sm package (by Adrian Bowman and Adelchi Azzalini) implements a variety of nonparametric smoothing techniques, centred on nonparametric regression for one or two covariates and density estimation for up to three variables. A new version of the package is now available on CRAN. In an earlier unannounced version (2.1), a variety of methods of bandwidth selection were added, with default

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> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch > [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Caio Lucidius > Naberezny Azevedo > Sent: 01 September 2005 12:09 > To: Help mailing list - R > Subject: [R] Multivariate Skew Normal distribution > > > Hi all, > > Could anyone tell me if there is any package (or function)

I have justed upgraded R v1.7.0 on Windows NT 4 and have installed the latest RMySQL (version 0.5-1)and DBI (version 0.1-5) packages. When I issue the following commands (tactfully adjusted) R just crashes and disappears, any ideas? require(RMySQL) m <- dbDriver("MySQL") con <- dbConnect(m, dbname="xxx", user="xxx", password="xxx",

Hi all, I'd like to quantize a variable to map it into a limited set of integers for use with a colormap. "image" and filled.contour" do this mapping inside somewhere, but I'd like to choose the colors for plotting a set of polygons. Is there a pre-existing function that does something like this well? i.e., is capable of using 'breaks'?