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For my R page at http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/ (also the target of RSiteSearch()), I'm trying to find a way to get the html versions of the help pages without actually installing packages. This will allow me to include packages that don't install. And it will also vastly speed up the monthly update, and make it easier to replicate everything in case of disaster. I have made a modified

Does anyone know how to read a SYSTAT .syd file on Linux? (Splus 6 does it, but it is easier to find a Windows box with Systat than to download their demo. I'm wondering if there is a better way than either of these options.) Jon -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron R search page:

I don't understand the advantages of generating html help dynamically, but I have found some clear disadvantages. One is that I can no longer use a bookmark in my browser to access the list of packages and go from there to individual help pages. The other is that, if I try to use ESS instead (using options(help_type="html") in .Rprofile) - it is a mess. ESS splits the emacs frame

My search site, http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu, has had several problems recently, all my fault, for which I apologize. But it now seems to be running reliably, on a new computer that is much faster than the old one. It uses htdig to permit search of the Rhelp mailing list, R documents, R functions, and various combinations of these. Search has several options, including Boolean search (with AND,

On 9/8/2016 5:01 AM, Jonathan Baron wrote: > OK. It is sort of fixed and sort of works. > > We'll keep it for now, but this is not going to work forever. When > namazu fails completely I will not have the time to install a new > search engine. > > One option is to use google. For a site like this, I think they will > want some money, but I'm not sure, and I do not

First, my site will be down December 27-28 because of a network upgrade at Penn. It will also be down at least one day before that, while I upgrade the operating system. (And another day some time in January because of a planned power outage.) Second, I have replaced the search engine in my R site: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/ I am now using Namazu instead of HtDig. The direct link to the

Unfortunately, I am unable to get this search site working again. (The message below explains why I had to rebuild it.) The computer worked for the better part of a day downloading and installing all the help files from all CRAN packages. Somehow it failed to get the vignettes this time. But I pushed ahead and ran the part of namazu that makes the search indices: mknmz. And you can see the

Hello, All: Jonathan Baron is "giving up" maintaining the RSiteSearch database. This breaks three things: (1) The R Site Search web service that Baron has maintained. (2) The RSiteSearch function in the utils package. (3) The sos package, for which I'm the maintainer and lead author. Might someone else be willing to take these over? For me,

Don't do anything yet. I may have found the problem by accident. I tried to use the computer from something else, and it was being drastically slowed down by some leftover processes, which turned out to be xlhtml. That is something that converts Excel files. Apparently, some excel files got into the libraries, and they were causing the indexing to hang completely. I am now running everything

I have always avoided missing data by keeping my distance from the real world. But I have a student who is doing a study of real patients. We're trying to test regression models using multiple imputation. We did the following (roughly): f <- aregImpute(~ [list of 32 variables, separated by + signs], n.impute=20, defaultLinear=T, data=t1) # I read that 20 is better than the default of

The Goodman/Kruskal gamma is a nice descriptive rank-order correlation statistic, often used in psychology. It is nice because it is easy to understand. It takes all pairs of values of each variable and asks whether they are congruent (S+ is the number in the same order for both variables) or discordant (S-, opposite ranking). The statistic is (S+ - S-)/(S+ + S-). It is like tau except for the

I'd like to generate 00Index.html for a bunch of libraries for my R search page. I have now almost all the html help files for individual functions, even for packages that won't install on my computer (e.g., because they are specific to Windows). I made these using Rdconv. But that won't make the 00Index file, and neither will Rdindex, which makes a text file. I'm probably

I would like to impute missing data in a set of correlated variables (columns of a matrix). It looks like transcan() from Hmisc is roughly what I want. It says, "transcan automatically transforms continuous and categorical variables to have maximum correlation with the best linear combination of the other variables." And, "By default, transcan imputes NAs with "best

To maintain my R site, I'm trying to install html help files only, but also keep track of the version (with DESCRIPTION). I have the following bash script, which works except for 00Index.html. That is not a huge problem because the help files are still searchable, but I'd like to fix it. A long time ago I asked the same question, and Brian Ripley said to use --index as an option to

I recently updated my search site at http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu It took about 7 hours with htDig, instead of the usual 3 hours. Now, when I search the "functions" index I get all sorts of non-html documents (indicated with brackets). These have never shown up before. Did htDig mogrify itself while it sat on my computer? (I didn't do anything to change it.) Or, more likely, I

I believe eigen(), svd() and qr() can all do it. Andy > From: Jonathan Baron > > On 06/17/04 19:04, Fred wrote: > >Dear R-listers: > > > >I am trying to test an algorithm on a set of linearly > independent vectors > >{x1,x2,...,xn}. > > Well, here's an idea, for 10 vectors of length 10, > as columns of a matrix m1. The 11th seems to be needed.

I cannot discover how to set or find the working directory in Rweb, so that I can source() a file from the server. The file I source() must refer to a data file in its directory. setwd() does not do anything, and getwd() says that the working directory is in /var/www/cgi-bin/ (on Linux). (I have a student who installed R on her own computer and analyzed half of her data, and then her computer

This is about my searchable archive. The function RSiteSearch() now searches this archive. I'm considering the following changes. If you have comments, please write me. Try to avoid cc'ing the list. The Rhelp02a directory, which now contains all list mail from 2002 (about 100 MB), is getting larger and larger. This probably cannot go on forever, and performance might even improve if

Dear list, Many people seem unhappy with the new documentation server because you need to have R running to access it, and it's not immediately obvious how to bookmark references so they work long-term. One solution to this problem is to have a globally available website that provides access to all package documentation. I'm happy to have a go at developing this, but I need some money to

The documentation says, "pmax and pmin take several vectors as arguments and return a single vector giving the parallel maxima (or minima) of the vectors." I discovered that, if you use a matrix or array instead of a vector, pmax returns a matrix or array, respectively. This makes pmax and pmin much more useful, and should not be left to people to discover on their own! For example: