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This may be elementary, but I can't find an answer: How can I set up global options for some specific arguments to functions in a package which can be easily changed by the user? This question relates to the selection of colors used in functions in several packages (heplots, genridge), where I want to provide reasonable default values for plots, but allow users to change those defaults

In my genridge package, I define a function ridge() for ridge regression, creating objects of class 'ridge' that I intend to enhance. In a documentation example, I want to use some functions from the car package. However, that package requires survival, which also includes a ridge() function, for coxph models. So, once I require(car) my ridge() function is masked, which means I have to

Using R 2.13.1, I am now getting the following NOTE when I run R CMD check on my HistData package * checking for unstated dependencies in examples ... NOTE 'library' or 'require' calls not declared from: gplots sp Under R 2.12.x, I didn't get these notes. I have ~ 25 .Rd files in this package, and AFAICS, every example uses library or require for the functions used;

I have a 45 x 16 data frame consisting of dissimilarities among 10 colors, giving in each column the 45 = 10*9/2 pairwise judgments for one of 16 subjects. The rownames identify each pair of colors, e.g, "AC" = ("A","C"), and the pairs are ordered by columns in the lower triangle of each distance matrix. > helm.raw <-

In an .Rd example for a package, I want to use data from another package, but avoid loading the entire package and avoid errors/warnings if that other package is not available. If I don't care about loading the other package, I can just do: if (require("ElemStatLearn", quietly=TRUE)) { data(prostate) # rest of example } I'd rather just be able to do something like:

kronecker, with make.dimnames=TRUE uses a hardwired sep=":" in the line tmp <- outer(dnx[[i]], dny[[i]], FUN = "paste", sep = ":") For an application in which dimnames arise from an n-way array, where different dimensions have different roles, and I would like to be able to use kronecker in the form kronecker(A, B, make.dimnames=TRUE,

I'm looking for an R equivalent of Beaton's (1964) Sweep algorithim for partial inversion of a matrix by pivoting. It implemented in SAS/IML as sweep(matrix, indices), described here http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/imlug/59656/HTML/default/langref_sect266.htm and here for python http://adorio-research.org/wordpress/?p=262 -- Michael Friendly Email: friendly AT yorku

Under Windows (and maybe others) you can use file.choose() as a substitute for an explicit file= argument in most places. Is there an analog for what I'll call dir.choose(), so that I can say setwd(dir.choose()) thx, -Michael -- Michael Friendly Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca Professor, Psychology Dept. York University Voice: 416 736-5115 x66249 Fax: 416 736-5814 4700 Keele

A simple question, but I can't find something to do what I want: Given: a vector of numbers, like lambda <- c(0, 0.005, 0.01, 0.02, 0.04, 0.08) Desired: format them in minimal space for use as plot labels, ie, without leading or tailing 0s. For this example: lambdaf <- c("0", .005", ".01", ".02", ".04", ".08") -- Michael

With a data frame containing some X & Y variables I can get the between set correlations with cor(X,Y): > cor(NLSY[,1:2], NLSY[3:6]) antisoc hyperact income educ math 0.043381307 -0.07581733 0.25487753 0.2876875 read -0.003735785 -0.07555683 0.09114299 0.1884101 Is there somewhere an analog of pairs(X,Y) that will produce the pairwise plots of each X against each

I'm checking a new release of vcdExtra via win builder with R-devel 2014-10-29 r66897 and have run into a Warning I don't know how to fix. I have one S3 generic, mosaic3d() that uses rgl and don't want to have rgl always loaded via Depends:. Instead, the mosaic3d.default() method includes if (!require(rgl)) stop("rgl is required") This always worked in the past, but

This question has probably been asked & answered before, but I can't find it: How to print a multiline figure caption in a plot, where different lines have different fonts and font sizes, and so that the lines of text are spaced in a reasonable way. Here's a simple example, where I have to keep tweaking the y coordinate and the cex combos, while I also manually adjust the aspect

There is a CRAN package licensed just as "GPL", say, XX, I want to use in a book. But I've needed to modify the package to make it do what I need for expository purposes. The package author(s) are amenable to my modifications, but probably unlikely to incorporate them into the CRAN version any time soon. Am I allowed, under GPL, to create a new version of the package, say XX2,

I've imported a .csv file where character strings that contained accented characters were written as HTML character entities. Is there a function that works on a vector to translate them back to accented (latin1) characters? Some examples: > grep("&", author$lname, value=TRUE) [1] "Fr&egrave;re de Montizon" "Lumi&egrave;re" [3]

In checking my vcdExtra package, the following NOTE newly appeared (R-Forge, using R version 3.0.1 Patched (2013-08-20 r63635)) Package in Depends field not imported from: ?gnm? These packages needs to imported from for the case when this namespace is loaded but not attached. In the DESCRIPTION file, I have Depends: R (>= 2.10), vcd, gnm (>= 1.0.3) In NAMESPACE: # we are a vcd

[Env: R 2.11.1, Win Xp, using Eclipse/StatET] In a package I'm working on, I want to create as.matrix() and as.array() methods for a particular kind of object (log odds ratios). These are returned in a loddsratio object as the $coefficients component, a vector, but really reflect an underlying (R-1)x(C-1)xstrata array, whose attributes are contained in other components. I define coef,

the NEWS file for R-devel says * Even data-only packages without *R* code need a namespace and so may need to be installed under *R* 2.14.0 or later. but what should this contain? Can it simply be an empty NAMESPACE file? I assume that data does not have to be exported. -Michael -- Michael Friendly Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca Professor, Psychology Dept. York University

[Env: R 2.15.1, Win Xp] Suggestion: Could the R script that checks for non-ASCII characters in R CMD check not give either: (a) a pointer to tools:::showNonASCIIfile, as in, try running tools:::showNonASCIIfile("Battig.Rd") or, (b) perhaps more useful, the result of tools:::showNonASCIIfile(file.Rd) on the offending file(s). I'm frequently bitten by this in preparing .Rd files

The null loglinear model is an intercept-only model for log frequency, log(f) = \mu For a one-way table the test of the null model is the same as the chisq.test. This can be fit using loglin(), but I don't think there is any way to specify this using MASS::loglm > t1<- margin.table(Titanic,1) > t1 Class 1st 2nd 3rd Crew 325 285 706 885 > loglin(t1, NULL) 0

A minor gripe/request: Could all R CMD package tools not at the very least be consistent in indicating when they are done, as in * DONE (packagename) or at least * DONE R CMD build leaves one hanging, not knowing whether it has completed or it is time to get another coffee. * checking for file 'C:/Documents/workspace/heplots/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * preparing 'heplots': *