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In the time honored spirit of wishing to do nothing well, could I suggest that the Splus (versions 5 and 6) response to: > rbind(NULL,NULL) NULL is preferable to the R response: > rbind(NULL,NULL) Error in rbind(NULL, NULL) : attempt to set an attribute on NULL This is on: platform sparc-sun-solaris2.8 arch sparc os solaris2.8 system sparc, solaris2.8 status major 1

Greetings, I'm organizing summer econometrics lunch meetings to discuss thesis work. The first meeting will be this friday July 18 12-1pm in the conference room on the third floor of Wohlers. The first talk will be by Lingjie Ma Control Variate Estimation of Structural Quantile Regression Models url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/my.html Roger Koenker email rkoenker@uiuc.edu Department of

An extremely modest proposal: It would be nice if packages could have a FAQ and if faq(package.name) would produce this faq. And if, by default faq() FAQ() would produce the admirable R faq... Apologies in advance if there is already a mechanism like this, but help.search() didn't reveal anything. url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker email rkoenker at

I sent the message below to r-sig-mac yesterday, but having no reply I decided to explore a bit myself and found that editing: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.3/Resources/share/make/ shlib.mk yzzy: diff shlib.mk shlib.mk~ 3c3 < include $(R_HOME)/etc/Makeconf --- > include $(R_HOME)/etc${R_ARCH}/Makeconf restored the functionality of R CMD INSTALL. Is this a known issue?

I have a vector of logLik values that I'd like to return and it would be nice if the the print method didn't run them together. Could I make a plea for using sep = " ", rather than sep = "" in print.logLik? url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker email rkoenker at uiuc.edu Department of Economics vox: 217-333-4558

This is an inquiry for all those who have been working on external data base applications. I sent an inquiry (below) to snews about this sort of thing a couple of years ago and eventually decided that I would wait to see what external database developments occurred and then revisit the problem. I hope that foundations are now better. Suppose for the sake of concreteness you have a large

----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Nnamdi <nnamdii at yahoo.com> To: roger koenker <rkoenker at uiuc.edu> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 1:08:58 PM Subject: Re: [R] efficiently replacing values in a matrix I tried the sparse matrix implementation, still there are issues: a <- matrix(nrow=10000,ncol=10000) > a.csr <- as.matrix.csr(a) Error in if (nnz == 0) { : missing value

I've been playing with a quincunx animation in R 1.2.2 and would like to have finer control over the speed of the animation. I know that I can use system("sleep 1") on unix systems at least, but it would be nice to have something like pause(.01). Any suggestions? url: http://www.econ.uiuc.edu Roger Koenker email roger at ysidro.econ.uiuc.edu Department of Economics vox:

I'd like to mention that there is a new quantile regression package "nprq" on CRAN for additive nonparametric quantile regression estimation. Models are structured similarly to the gss package of Gu and the mgcv package of Wood. Formulae like y ~ qss(z1) + qss(z2) + X are interpreted as a partially linear model in the covariates of X, with nonparametric components defined as

We've recently "upgraded" a server to solaris 8, and in reinstalling R I've encountered a problem in getting it to recognize the readline library. I have installed readline in what I believe to be the "usual" place: /usr/local/lib with include files in /usr/local/include/readline. But ./configure produces: ragnar.econ.uiuc.edu# grep readline hout checking for

Does anyone have (good) experience converting tables of tournament results into dendrogram-like graphics? Tables, for example, like this: read.table(url("http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/research/ncaa/NCAA.d")) Any pointers appreciated. RK url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker email rkoenker at uiuc.edu Department of Economics vox: 217-333-4558

I've had a play with this and, due to my own short-comings, remain none the wiser. In particular, I'm not sure what value of 'spar' is consistent with the magic lambda=1/1600 for quarterly data. I initially interpreted spar as lambda and tried setting spar=1/1600. This results in almost no smoothing while spar=1600 causes an error. The smooth.spline function seems to want

I'm trying to resolve a small problem that has arisen from introducing a NAMESPACE for the package SparseM. Prior to the namespace I had a class "matrix.diag.csr" that consisted of diagonal sparse matrices. It was defined to have the same attributes as the matrix.csr class and setAs was used to define how to coerce integers and vectors into this form:

We have a solaris/sparc machine that has been running an old version of R-devel: Version 2.2.0 Under development (unstable) (2005-06-04 r34577) which was built as m64 from sources. Attempting to upgrade to 2.4.0 the configure step goes ok, but I'm getting early on from make: > gcc -m64 -L/opt/sfw/lib/sparcv9 -L/usr/lib/sparcv9 > -L/usr/openwin/lib/sparcv9 -L/usr/local/lib -o

I am trying to make R-1.5.0 from source on a new G4 system with the apple developer tools and X11 installed and with ATLAS. Running ./configure appears to end normally, but running make yields: gcc -no-cpp-precomp -I. -I../../src/include -I../../src/include -I/usr/local/include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -O2 -c Rdynload.c -o Rdynload.o Rdynload.c: In function `R_FindSymbol': Rdynload.c:942:

In ancient times, circa 1980, S data directories were called swork and sdata not .Data, and "New-S" as described in the already medieval "Blue Book" discusses a function DBCONVERT that converted swork data into .Data data. It is embarrassing to admit it, but I still have data archives from a BTL machine called alice in the swork format and would like to convert a dataset to

About 2 percent of the time I use fix() to edit a function that is sitting in .RData I get the response: > fix(qss) Error in edit(name, file, editor) : problem with running editor vi when I try to close the editing session. I used to think that these were always cases where there was some syntactical error with the edited file, but this is not the case. I realize that one surefire way to

In a private response to Tony Plate's suggestion to replace version() output with sessionInfo() in R-help requests, > roger koenker wrote: >> Thanks for this, it would seem useful to have version numbers for >> the packages too? and Tony replied, > > Sounds sensible to me! If I were you I'd send a message to R-devel > suggesting this. AFAIK, some changes to

> On Mar 26, 2015, at 8:50 AM, Martyn Plummer <plummerM at iarc.fr> wrote: > > On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 15:12 -0500, Roger Koenker wrote: >> Thierry, >> >> I have this: >> >> if (require(MatrixModels) && require(Matrix)) { >> X <- model.Matrix(Terms, m, contrasts, sparse = TRUE) > > You have this in the current release, which

What is the current state of the R-art for ordered probit models, and more esoterically is there any available R strategy for ordered cauchit models, i.e. ordered multinomial alternatives with a cauchy link function. MCMC is an option, obviously, but for a univariate latent variable model this seems to be overkill... standard mle methods should be preferable. (??) Googling reveals that spss