similar to: a side note to the Rcmdr issue

Dear R Development People: I have written a couple of plugins for Rcmdr and they do not seem to work with R-2.11.0. Here is the output: > library(RcmdrPlugin.epack) Loading required package: Rcmdr Loading required package: tcltk Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done Loading required package: car --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Rcmdr Version 1.5-4 Attaching package:

Hello! Over the weekend, I updated my RcmdrPlugin.qual package. It works fine on a 64 bit Windows machine but not a 32 bit. This is very strange. The new menu with all of the Quality Control stuff does not appear. Have any of you run into this sort of thing before, please? Thanks, Sincerely, Erin Erin M. Hodgess, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences

Dear R Debian People: I have put this on regular R help as well, but thought that I'd try here too. I updated to R-2.10.0 on Ubuntu Karmic Koala via apt-get update, apt-get install. Then I had a problem that said that I need MASS <= R-2.9.2. Fair enough. Uwe Ligges was kind enough to point out that I needed to use > update.packges(checkBuilt=TRUE) So I did. Now the menu on Rcmdr

In R-beta (Masked Marvel), when I do the example from the read.pnm help file, this is what happens: x <- read.pnm(system.file("pictures/logo.pgm",package="pixmap")[1]) Warning message: In rep(cellres, length=2): x is NULL so the result will be NULL In R-2.15.3, it's all right. Thanks, Erin Erin M. Hodgess, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Computer and

Dear R Debian People: I have a desktop which has both Windows and Debian operating systems. If I am on the Debian side, is there a way to access file from the Windows side, please? Thanks, Erin Erin M. Hodgess, PhD Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgesse@uhd.edu [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R People: I have a question about a "sorting" problem, please. I have a vector xx: > xx [1] -2.0 1.4 -1.2 -2.2 0.4 1.5 -2.2 0.2 -0.4 -0.9 and a vector of breaks: > xx.y [1] -2.2000000 -0.9666667 0.2666667 1.5000000 I want to produce another vector z which contains the number of the class that each data point is in. for instance, xx[1] is between xx.y[1] and

Dear Debian People: Is there a way to run a little script (on Ubuntu Manic Meerkat) every hour, please? I know that this is more of a LINUX/UNIX question rather than an R question. Sorry. Thanks, Erin Erin M. Hodgess, PhD Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgesse@uhd.edu [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R Developers: Is there a way to look at the underlying code from such items as R_setup_starma, please? Thanks, Erin Erin M. Hodgess, PhD Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgesse@uhd.edu [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R Developers: Why is it that the singular value decomposition is used when running regression with arima, please? I've been looking for a reference for that but have come up empty so far. Thank you for any help. Sincerely, Erin Erin M. Hodgess, PhD Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgesse@uhd.edu

Dear R Development People: I was trying to build R-2.12.2 from source on a Windows XP machine. Doing the make all recommended works fine, but building the bitmap dll is a problem. It seems to be in the libpng directory. I got libpng-1.5.1, and untarred it. However, there is no makefile.mingw file in the scripts directory. I then obtained a version of libpng-1.4.5, and the file is there.

Dear R People: I will be teaching an undergraduate Design of Experiments class in the Spring Semester. It will be very much an applied course. My question, please: has anyone used R for a course like this, please? I've tried Rcmdr for a regression course and just plain command line for a time series course. Should I use Rcmdr, or teach them to use the command line, OR is there something

Dear R People: I have a data frame with the following column names: > names(funky) [1] "UHD.1" "UHD.2" "UHD.3" "UHD.4" "L..W..1" "L..W..2" "L..W..3" [8] "L..W..4" "B..W..1" "B..W..2" "B..W..3" "B..W..4" "W..B..1" "W..B..2" [15]

Dear R People: Hope you're having a great weekend! Anyhow, I'm currently experimenting with R Studio on a web server, which is the best thing since sliced bread, Coca Cola, etc. My one question: there is a way to show plots. is there a way to show Rcmdr or its Plugins, please? I tried, but it doesn't seem to work. Thanks so much, Sincerely, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate

Dear R People: (particularly those who have build Rcmdr Plugin packages): I'm building a new Plugin and keep getting the following error: Error in if (is.null(where) || where >= n) rbind(object1, object2) else if (where < : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed Error in library(RcmdrPlugin Have any of you run into this, please? I feel like I've seen it before but can't

Dear R People: Are your undergraduate students receptive to learning R, as a rule? Most of the time, mine really like it. But this semester, they act as though they are being eaten by rats when learning R. They are not trying at all. Any similar experiences? If anyone has any good ideas, I would be THRILLED to hear them, as I am using R in Summer School. Thanks, Sincerely, Erin Hodgess

Dear R People: When the D function is used for a symbolic derivative, an expression is returned, which is fine. How do you change that expression to a function, please? I've been experimenting with substitute and deparse, but no success yet. This is R 1.8.0 for Windows. thanks in advance for the help! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Hi Ryszard! There is a dist function in R. It's in the mva package. You can set the kind of distance that you want. Thanks, Erin mailto:hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R People: In the function "decompose", the object has the class of "decomposed.ts". (from package stats) I would like to see the class definition and the method for the plotting. However, when I use isClass("decomposed.ts") I get "FALSE". When I check getMethods("plot") there is no method for plot on decomposed.ts Any suggestions,

Dear R People: Suppose I have the following; xa <- c("There are 5 dogs") I would like to have a new character vector such that xb[1] is There xb[2] is are xb[3] is 5 xb[4] is dogs Since the original vector has length 1, substring will not work. Any suggestions would be MOST welcome! thanks Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences

Dear R People: Suppose I have the 4 numbers: 1,2,3,4. I would like to create a listing of the permutations of 4 items taken 4 at a time. Is there a built in function for that, please? Thanks in advance! R 2-3-1 for Windows or Linux Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu