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Dear R-help list members, I forgot to copy my reply to the r-help list. Here's most of it. John -------------------------------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox -------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: John Fox [mailto:jfox at mcmaster.ca] Sent: Sunday,

Dear Roman, I've attached the latex file for the copy-edited version of your manuscript -- correcting English grammar and style, and making the paper conform more closely to the R News style. Can you check this over to confirm that I've not altered the meaning of your text and to approve the copy-edits? Thanks, John -------------------------------- John Fox Department of Sociology

Dear Kurt, I've uploaded a new version (0.9-4) of the sem package to CRAN. I hope that everything is well with you. John -------------------------------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox _______________________________________________ R-packages mailing list R-packages at

Hi John Thanks a lot for the reply. Could you suggest how I can correct this problem? I tried using a correlation matrix instead of raw moments, but still got the same error. I also fixed parameters v1,v2,v3,a1 at 1; then it gave me the error that the system is exatly singular. To answer the points that you raised: 1. x1-x6 are not causes; they are just indicatiors. Does that change my

Dear r-devel list members, I've prepared a version of the Rcmdr package that uses the new tools for internationalization and localization in R 2.1.x. For the present, this is the development version of the Rcmdr package (1.1-0), available at <http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/index.html>. There is currently a French translation provided with the package, courtesy of

Dear R-devel list members, For several years, I've maintained for my private use and for demonstrations a set of functions [e.g., for indexing, with(), summary(), etc.] that employ the RODBC package and a database to provide a "pseudo" data frame. Row "indexes" can be specified as SQL queries. I know that the idea isn't original, and I haven't done anything with

Dear list members, I've just uploaded version 1.0-0 of the Rcmdr package to CRAN. For people who haven't seen the package before, the "R Commander" provides a basic-statistics graphical user interface to R, based on the tcltk package. The new version incorporates a number of improvements to the R Commander interface, as documented in the CHANGES file distributed with the

Dear list members, I've just uploaded version 1.0-0 of the Rcmdr package to CRAN. For people who haven't seen the package before, the "R Commander" provides a basic-statistics graphical user interface to R, based on the tcltk package. The new version incorporates a number of improvements to the R Commander interface, as documented in the CHANGES file distributed with the

Dear list members, In sem, std.coef() will give me standardized coefficients from a sem model. But is there a trick so that path.diagram can use these coefficients rather than unstandardized ones? Thanks Steve Powell From: John Fox <jfox_at_mcmaster.ca> Date: Wed 28 Feb 2007 - 14:37:22 GMT Dear Tim, See ?standardized.coefficients (after loading the sem package). Regards, John John

Dear R-devel list members, What's the best current advice about writing Fortran code for use in R packages? The Writing R Extensions manual still says that the .Fortran interface is primarily intended for FORTRAN 77 code. In particular, are there portability issues if I use Fortran 95 in a package? For example, I see that Rtools for Windows now include the gfortran compiler. (I know that

Dear list members, In re-running with GLMM() from the lme4 package a generalized-linear mixed model that I had previously fit with glmmPQL() from MASS, I'm getting a warning of a convergence failure, even when I set the method argument of GLMM() to "PQL": > bang.mod.1 <- glmmPQL(contraception ~ as.factor(children) + cage + urban, + random=~as.factor(children) + cage +

Dear r-help members, Can lmer() in the lme4 package fit models that have a specified within-group correlation structure, as provided, for example, by the correlation argument to lme() in the nlme package? Thanks, John -------------------------------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox

Dear list members, I've uploaded a new package, called polycor (version 0.5-0), to CRAN. The package has functions for computing polychoric and polyserial correlations, either by maximum-likelihood (in which case, standard errors are available) or by faster approximations. There's also a function to compute "heterogeneous" correlation matrices composed of product-moment,

Dear list members, I've uploaded a new package, called polycor (version 0.5-0), to CRAN. The package has functions for computing polychoric and polyserial correlations, either by maximum-likelihood (in which case, standard errors are available) or by faster approximations. There's also a function to compute "heterogeneous" correlation matrices composed of product-moment,

Dear list members, I think that it's a pity that there's no Windows binary for the rgl package on CRAN. I understand that rgl doesn't compile with the standard Windows tools and that there's a Windows binary on Daniel Adler's web site. But the lack of an rgl binary on CRAN provides presents a potential obstacle to at least some Windows users, such as many students in

Dear r-devel list members, I've experienced the following problem in getting a selection from a Tk list box using tcltk. This is a long-standing problem, but I've finally decided to tackle it. Consider the following: Library(tcltk) top <- tktoplevel() listbox <- tklistbox(top, height="10", width="2", exportselection="FALSE",

Dear list members, I'm encountering the following problem with package dependencies and imports: The Rcmdr package doesn't declare a formal dependency (via depends or suggests in the package DESCRIPTION) on the rgl package because the latter apparently causes problems on some systems. This allows the Rcmdr package to build and check on systems without rgl present; if rgl isn't

Dear r-help list members, Is there a way to test whether an object is an S4 object? The best that I've been able to come up with is isS4object <- function(object) !(is.null(slotNames(object))) which assumes that an S4 object has at least one slot. I think this is safe, but perhaps I'm missing something. Thanks, John -------------------------------- John Fox Department of

Dear r-help list members, Is there a way to test whether an object is an S4 object? The best that I've been able to come up with is isS4object <- function(object) !(is.null(slotNames(object))) which assumes that an S4 object has at least one slot. I think this is safe, but perhaps I'm missing something. Thanks, John -------------------------------- John Fox Department of

Dear Trevor, I've noticed a discrepancy in the degrees of freedom reported by gam() from the gam package in R vs. gam() in S-PLUS. The nonparametric df differ by 1; otherwise (except for things that depend upon the df), the output is the same: --------- snip ------------ *** From R (gam version 0.93): > mod.gam <- gam(prestige ~ lo(income, span=.6), data=Prestige) >