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Full_Name: Robert Baer Version: 2.6.1 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (198.209.172.95) It would be wonderful if the CRAN mirror had an easy way to set a "default CRAN mirror". Current behavior is to have to choose a CRAN mirror the first time a package is installed in a session. The closest mirror site is always the same for me, and I wouldn't wish to change it unless it

I have a large number of troff help files which are automatically converted to .Rd files. Many of these have examples which contain the printed output of the examples. This makes example(functionname) not work. Is there a way to avoid removing all this output by delimiting it in some way such that the output will not appear in R-ex? Secondly, it would be nice if there was a place where output

Dear all, I've noticed the following problem for the past several days: ---------------- snip ---------------- > update.packages(ask=FALSE) . . . trying URL 'http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/src/contrib/zoo_1.7-11.zip' Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : cannot open URL 'http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/src/contrib/zoo_1.7-11.zip'

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Henrik Bengtsson" <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu> > To: "John Fox" <jfox at mcmaster.ca> > Cc: "R-devel" <r-devel at r-project.org> > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:15:36 AM > Subject: Re: [Rd] problem with update.packages() in R-Devel (3.2.0) on Windows > > It works again using: > > % R

I don't know what has changed with Catalina But I just tried my tk console from the shell command tkcon And got the following error. Here is my shell: $ tkcon dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib:/opt/X11/lib/libtk8.6.dylib Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/wish Reason: image not found Abort trap: 6 I don't know whether this is a red herring or not, but the

>>>>> Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> >>>>> on Thu, 14 Sep 2017 10:13:02 +0200 writes: >>>>> Fox, John <jfox at mcmaster.ca> >>>>> on Wed, 13 Sep 2017 22:45:07 +0000 writes: >> Dear Terry, >> Even the behaviour of lm() and glm() isn't entirely consistent. In both cases,

Hello, I am not currently using R but I have been using S+ for sevaral years. I think that I fit in the category of power users, never using the GUI prefering the flexibility of a command line interface (CLI). In a short while I will try to move to R, that is if we can convince our IT people that installing a freeware package on a Unix server will not damaged the companie's network! The

Dear Terry, Even the behaviour of lm() and glm() isn't entirely consistent. In both cases, singularity results in NA coefficients by default, and these are reported in the model summary and coefficient vector, but not in the coefficient covariance matrix: ---------------- > mod.lm <- lm(Employed ~ GNP + Population + I(GNP + Population), + data=longley) >

>>>>> Fox, John <jfox at mcmaster.ca> >>>>> on Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:46:44 +0000 writes: > Dear Martin, I made three points which likely got lost > because of the way I presented them: > (1) Singularity is an unusual situation and should be made > more prominent. It typically reflects a problem with the > data or the

Dear R-devel list members, Probably not an opportune time for this, given the immanent release of 2.0.0, but I was just reminded (while preparing a lecture) of a function that I find useful and that I though might be a candidate for the utils package: The function, which I call some(), behaves like head() and tail(), from which it is adapted, except that it samples from an object (e.g., rows of a

>>>>> Ben Bolker >>>>> on Thu, 21 Feb 2019 08:18:51 -0500 writes: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 7:49 AM Fox, John <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote: >> >> Dear Ben, >> >> Perhaps I'm missing the point, but contrasts.arg is documented to be a list. From ?model.matrix: "contrasts.arg: A list, whose entries are

Dear Colleagues, When I try to install Rcmdr the following happens: ---------------------------------- > library(Rcmdr) Error in structure(.External("dotTclObjv", objv, PACKAGE = "tcltk"), class = "tclObj") : [tcl] invalid command name "font". Error : .onAttach failed in 'attachNamespace' Error: package/namespace load failed for

I noticed, what seened to me, to be odd. These produce a boxplot in the first case and a spineplot in the second case in R .2.2.0: plot(Sepal.Length ~ Species, iris) plot(Species ~ Sepal.Length, iris) What if one wants to exchange axes? Does the fact that this seemingly innocuous change result in completely different graphics make sense? Is it desirable?

Dear r-devel list members, By placing a call to the new (with R 2.15.1) globalVariables() in the development version of the Rcmdr package, I've succeeded in reducing the "notes" produced by R CMD check from dozens to two. But I still get the following notes, even though '.commander.done' is in the call to globalVariables(): ------------- snip ------------ * checking R code

Dear r-users! I wonder if there is a way of designing a directory like structure for holding my data using environments? It would be nice if I could implement a kind of 'cd' command to change to a differend environment etc. Can anybody give me a hint? -cl -- Christoph Lange MPI fuer biologische Kybernetik |Phone: +49-7071-601-607| Postfach 2169, D-72012 Tuebingen |FAX:

Dear helpers I have a list where each element is a matrix (the list is obtained with lapply). I want to sum those matrices. Is there a function to do that? The sum function sums all the elements... -- http://adsl.sapo.pt

FWIW, before all the examples are changed to data frame variants, I think there's fairly good reason to have at least _one_ example that does _not_ place variables in a data frame. The data argument in lm() is optional. And there is more than one way to manage data in a project. I personally don't much like lots of stray variables lurking about, but if those are the only variables out

Dear colleagues, I had a question wrt the car package. How do I evaluate whether a simpler multivariate regression model is adequate? For instance, I do the following: ami <- read.table(file = "http://www.public.iastate.edu/~maitra/stat501/datasets/amitriptyline.dat", col.names=c("TCAD", "drug", "gender", "antidepressant","PR",

Several times my packages have fallen foul of the latex check at the uploading-to-CRAN stage, creating extra work for Kurt Hornik. I've never bothered trying to get latex working on my own packages (happy with vanilla help) but am told that "latex is the closest thing to a syntax checker for Rd files" and that I should set it up. Now, there is already a latex on my (Windows XP)

Dear R-Helpers: What other references are there on the capabilities of the survival5 package other than the help files and the chapter on survival analysis in every edition of Modern Applied Statistics with S? I'm thinking of something like "An Introduction to Survival Analysis in R" with worked examples that might complement or extend the chapter in MASS. Thanks, Spencer