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On 04/08/2009 7:33 PM, Steven McKinney wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca] >> Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 8:03 AM >> To: Steven McKinney >> Cc: r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch; R-bugs at r-project.org >> Subject: Re: [Rd] Wishlist: Navigate to "Index" page of help when no >> topic

Hi all, When I install a new package, and don't yet know any function names, I have to play the "poor man's game" to get to the standard help system "Index" page for the package: Poor Man's Game -=20 Load new package;=20 issue search() command; find position (say N) of loaded package;=20 issue objects(pos =3D N) command; get name of a random function (san

Hi all, Is there a way to navigate directly to the "Index" page of help for a package? Here's my connundrum: I download and install package "foo". I don't know what functions are in package "foo", so I can't invoke the help for package "foo" via > ?someFunction help(package = "foo") pops up some non-hyperlinked information page,

Hi all, I have been having problems generating png files on a Mac running OS X 10.6.8. Here's a simple example > png("foo.png", type = "cairo"); plot(1:10); dev.off(); null device 1 libpng warning: Application built with libpng-1.2.26 but running with 1.5.2 The resultant file is of size 0 Kb. Is this the proper place to report this issue? Or should

Hi useRs, A recent coding infelicity along these lines yielded a corrupt data frame. foo <- matrix(1:12, nrow = 3) bar <- data.frame(foo) bar$NewCol <- foo[foo[, 1] == 4, 4] bar lapply(bar, length) > foo <- matrix(1:12, nrow = 3) > bar <- data.frame(foo) > bar$NewCol <- foo[foo[, 1] == 4, 4] > bar X1 X2 X3 X4 NewCol 1 1 4 7 10 <NA> 2 2 5 8 11

The warnings from make.packages.html() on the Apple Mac OS X platform can be dealt with as follows: ------------------------------------------------ (1) make.packages.html() uses the function tempdir() and attempts to create a temporary directory in the default location /tmp/ which fails due to the /tmp directory architecture on the Mac. I set up a .Renviron file in my user account

Running R.app on Mac OS X 10.4 > version _ platform powerpc-apple-darwin8.6.0 arch powerpc os darwin8.6.0 system powerpc, darwin8.6.0 status major 2 minor 3.1 year 2006

Running R.app on Mac OS X 10.4 > version _ platform powerpc-apple-darwin8.6.0 arch powerpc os darwin8.6.0 system powerpc, darwin8.6.0 status major 2 minor 3.1 year 2006

Full_Name: Steven McKinney Version: 2.9.0 OS: Mac OS X 10.5.6 Submission from: (NULL) (142.103.207.10) A corrupt data frame can be constructed as follows: foo <- matrix(1:12, nrow = 3) bar <- data.frame(foo) bar$NewCol <- foo[foo[, 1] == 4, 4] bar lapply(bar, length) > foo <- matrix(1:12, nrow = 3) > bar <- data.frame(foo) > bar$NewCol <- foo[foo[, 1] == 4, 4]

Hi all, Can anyone explain why the following use of the subset() function produces a different outcome than the use of the "[" extractor? The subset() function as used in density(subset(mydf, ht >= 150.0 & wt <= 150.0, select = c(age))) appears to me from documentation to be equivalent to density(mydf[mydf$ht >= 150.0 & mydf$wt <= 150.0, "age"])

Hi all, I believe this is a bug in the model.matrix function. I'd like a second opinion before filing a bug report. If I have a nested covariate B with multiple values for just one level of A, I can not get a non-singular design matrix out of model.matrix > df <- data.frame(A = factor(c("a", "a", "x", "x"), levels = c("x",

Running R2.4.0 on Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8, in Emacs ESS mode, and also R.app. In an attempt to learn a bit more about a particular method (geneNames in package affy) I invoked getMethods("geneNames") which produced geneNames methods, but not the one in affy (output below). I had to know the signature (AffyBatch) in order to find the method > getMethod("geneNames",

Hi all, What are current methods people use in R to identify mis-spelled column names when selecting columns from a data frame? Alice Johnson recently tackled this issue (see [BioC] posting below). Due to a mis-spelled column name ("FileName" instead of "Filename") which produced no warning, Alice spent a fair amount of time tracking down this bug. With my fumbling fingers

Dears Sirs During my computational work I encountered unexpected behavior when calling "ar" function, namely # time series x<-ts(c(-0.2052083,-0.3764986,-0.3762448,0.3740089,0.2737568,2.8235722,- 1.7783313,0.2728676,-0.3273164),start=c(1978,3),frequency=4,end=c(1980,3)) # ar function res.ar<-ar(x,aic=TRUE,demean=F) # call "ar" again and ............

Full_Name: Lixin Han Version: 2.4.0 OS: Windows 2000 Submission from: (NULL) (155.94.110.222) A character vector c('a','b') is supplied to rm(). As a result, 'c' is deleted unintentionally. > a <- 1:5 > b <- 'abc' > c <- letters > ls() [1] "a" "b" "c" > rm(c('a','b')) > ls() character(0)

> -----Original Message----- > From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca] > Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 8:03 AM > To: Steven McKinney > Cc: r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch; R-bugs at r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] Wishlist: Navigate to "Index" page of help when no > topic specified (PR#13860) >=20 > On 7/28/2009 6:30 PM, smckinney at bccrc.ca

Dear R gurus, On the CRAN website, it says that a 64bit version for Mac OS Tiger would be release shortly. Do we know what are the expected dates? Will the packages be also compiled for 64bit? We are running large microarray analysis and we keep hitting the 3Gb memory limit. I saw that there is a version available on the development mirrors, but I am not too excited to replace our very stable

> -----Original Message----- > From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca] > Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 5:06 PM > To: Steven McKinney > Cc: 'r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch'; 'R-bugs at r-project.org' > Subject: Re: [Rd] Wishlist: Navigate to "Index" page of help when no > topic specified (PR#13860) >=20 > On 04/08/2009 7:33 PM,

On 7/28/2009 6:30 PM, smckinney at bccrc.ca wrote: > Hi all, > > When I install a new package, and don't yet know any function names, > I have to play the "poor man's game" to get to the standard > help system "Index" page for the package: You could complain to the package author or maintainer, who should have created a help alias with the package name

Does anyone know if the lmer function of lme4 works fine for unbalanced designs? I have the examination results of 1000 pupils on three subjects, one score every term. So, I have three scores for English (one for every term), three scores for maths etc. However, not everybody was examined in maths, not everybody was examined in English etc, but everybody was in effect examined on four subjects. I