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I think many people share your view and are aghast at the reception that some well-intentioned posts receive. There have been past discussions on this and many people feel the way you and I do. Just to head off another round, let me acknowledge that there appears to be multiple viewpoints and although hard to believe by myself, there actually is a contingent that views what I see as

Dear all,=20 without taking sides here, I see two major advantage of keeping the redundancy in any documentation minimal. First, it makes the maintanance of the documentation as simple as possible. This in turn, minimizes the risk for getting inconsistent documentation in new updates. Otherwise, someone has to have a really good overview and know where to update when, say, one default argument is

ladies and gents: I have posted a couple of simple questions recently. As often happens to novices, the information was there somewhere, even in front of my eyes, and I just did not see it. I looked in docs that seemed to me to be the right place for this particular information, but did not find it. There is no question: mea culpa, and everything is documented somewhere in R. (Worst

hi henrik (all): A better solution would be to have levels: set.help(level="beginner"), which then provides expanded explanations. However, I do not think this is necessary: For the most part, the online R docs are great. It is not more detailed explanations that beginners crave. My primary wishes arise as I stumble onto a need, and then wish for a few more examples of different

I think many people share your view and are aghast at the reception that some well-intentioned posts receive. There have been past discussions on this and many people feel the way you and I do. Just to head off another round, let me acknowledge that there appears to be multiple viewpoints and although hard to believe by myself, there actually is a contingent that views what I see as

Ivo, Let me address your points in reverse order: 1. There is a `wishlist' category for bug reports, which I guess you've overlooked. 2. There is also a `Contributed Documentation' section on the R web site, which you can submit your contribution. As well, there are a few introductory level documents there already that you might be interested. 3. I must repectfully disagree about

This is a message for whoever maintains "chisq.test": For an outcome more extreme than 2000 simulations, a Monte Carlo p-value of "< 2.2e-16" was printed. Ripley said the proper p-value for such cases should be 1/(B+1) = 1/2001. This can be easily fixed by adding "if(PVAL==0)PVAL <- 1/(B+1)" right after the following line in the code for chisq.test (in R

ladies and gents---is there a list of what the R core team would like to get funded? let's presume that we could raise $100,000 or $1,000,000 (or even $10,000,000) for the core team. what would the R core team do with the money? is there a list somewhere, perhaps like kickstarter? my preference would be improving up the default error hunting process---from greater strictness to assertions

Well, R ( http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/ ) has a pictex(..) driver. >>>>> "kjetil" == kjetil halvorsen <kjetil@caoba.entelnet.bo> writes: kjetil> Is there any possibility to write code which ``translates'' kjetil> from splus graphics to latex picture commands? Or somebody has kjetil> written something like that? kjetil> I did

Hola! I have the following in a .Rd file: \eqn{\mbox{coef} = c(\mbox{coef}[1],\ldots, \mbox{coef}[n]) } {coef = c(coef[1], coef[2], \dots, coef[n])} However, both arguments come out in the latex file! Whats happening? Kjetil Halvorsen

This is R1.9.0, windows XP I run across the following: It is admittedly silly, but it shouldn't segfault: test <- list(y=1:100, x=rep(NaN, 100)) approx(test, xout=rep(NaN, 10)) Bombs! Kjetil Halvorsen

Hola! I have some problems with gam in mgcv. Firts a detail: it would be nice igf gam would accept an na.action argument, but that not the main point. I want to have a smooth term for time over a year, the same pattern repeating in succesive years. It would be natural then to impose the condition s(0)=s(12). Is this possible within mgcv? I tried to obtain this with trigonometric terms, aca:

The NEWS file for R-1.7.0 says: table() now allows exclude= with factor arguments (requested by Michael Friendly). But in a recent R-1.7.1beta: > test <- c(1,2,3,4,5,1,2,3,4,5,NA,NA,1,2,3,4,5) > table(test) test 1 2 3 4 5 3 3 3 3 3 > table(test, exclude=NULL) test 1 2 3 4 5 <NA> 3 3 3 3 3 2 > table( as.factor(test), exclude=NULL) 1 2

I just found a bug in fisher.test(). This is rw1080, on windows XP. A p-value can certainly not be Inf, but: > religion Costumbres rel orig Religion Si Algunas veces Nunca católica 2121 4700 6234 prot/evan 100 216 2461 otra C 27 67 502 otra 0 0 14 > fisher.test(religion, workspace=2000000)

I saw a reort on R-help (without answer) about not being able to load old workspaces (.RData files) in 1.9.0alpha. I have seen the same problem with some of my workspace, although most of them loads without problems. (rw1090alpha as of 17.03, windows XP). Why will some workspaces not load? Kjetil Halvorsen

I am working with the precompiled rw1090beta as of 2004-03-23. ?ts has in section "See also" "Standard package 'ts' for many additional time-series functions." td does not longer exist. ?plot.ts example section uses library(ts) ?lines.ts example section has library(ts) Kjetil Halvorsen

Hola! Any explanation of the following: > summary(as.Date(rep(NA,20))) Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. NA NA NA NA NA NA NA's "1970-01-21" Where does this 1970 date come from? Kjetil Halvorsen

Hola! I got problems using an objects returned from arima (in KalmanSmooth(my.ts, ModArima$model), because my.ts showed up to have storage mode "integer" (is.integer(my.ts was TRUE). Should storage.mode() of a ts be allowed to be integer, should ts() someplace say storage.mode(ts.out) <- "double", or maybe inside arima() storage.mode(x) <- "double"

Hola! Starting with rw1071, just after starting Rgui the scope is not with Rconsole, but some other place. This means I have to do a mouse click in the Rconsole before starting to write the first command. Since I always forget this, I end up writing the first command twice. This is of course only a minor nuisance, but why is focus no longer set to Rconsole window when start-up? This is on

I should'nt have sent the last mail so fast. Same problem with \eqn{u_j = a_j + b x + c x^2, \quad j=1, \ldots, r-1} {u[j] = a[j] + b*x + c*x^2 j = 1,\dots,r-1} I thought the problem in the first case could have to do with the use use of \mbox{} (with the braces) within the arguments of \eqn, but here there are none braces in the arguments of \eqn{}{}. Another case giving the