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I've got another edition of my simulation replication framework. I'm attaching 2 R files and pasting in the readme. I would especially like to know if I'm doing anything that breaks .Random.seed or other things that R's parallel uses in the environment. In case you don't want to wrestle with attachments, the same files are online in our SVN

http://www.analytics.washington.edu/~rossini/courses/cph-statcomp/ Lecture/Labs 1 and 2 are on For ESS, ESS-Noweb-Sweave. Lecture/Lab 4 is on parallel computing with R (each Lecture/Lab was just under 2 hours). Comments/corrections welcome, they were used last week here in Copenhagen, so "most" of the bugs are out. best, -tony p.s. Lecture/Lab 3 on visualization needs to be

rdevel from yesterday, also in 1.9.1 (Debian, -3). The man page of 'hist' (from the graphics package, obtained by "?hist") suggests 'truehist' under "see also", but 'truehist' isn't loaded by default (a sensible "of course"), so that "?truehist" fails. One can do help.search(), of course, which points what to do, but leads to my

I wrote: > I'm trying to track down a rather critical problem. This happens both > on Debian's current unstable as well a from anoncvs built this > morning, reinstalling MASS. Is anyone else seeing this or am I just > broken and special? And it was just me. Solution (thanks Deepayan, with hints from Dirk): ./tools/rsync-recommended from the root directory of

I wrote: > I'm trying to track down a rather critical problem. This happens both > on Debian's current unstable as well a from anoncvs built this > morning, reinstalling MASS. Is anyone else seeing this or am I just > broken and special? And it was just me. Solution (thanks Deepayan, with hints from Dirk): ./tools/rsync-recommended from the root directory of

cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.r-project.org:/cvs co R setuid failed: Operation not permitted -- rossini@u.washington.edu http://www.analytics.washington.edu/ Biomedical and Health Informatics University of Washington Biostatistics, SCHARP/HVTN Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center UW (Tu/Th/F): 206-616-7630 FAX=206-543-3461 | Voicemail is unreliable FHCRC

I'm seeing weird issues in methods initialization, i.e. loading marrayClasses loads Biobase, and when explicitly done, as in library(Biobase) library(marrayClasses) is fine, but when Biobase is loaded via a require statement in marrayClasses' .First.Lib, I end up with: Warning message: In the method signature for function "coerce", class "exprSet" has no

Greetings! The Bioconductor core group would like to announce the 5th release of Bioconductor, version 1.4. There are many new packages as well as several major upgrades and fixes in older packages, and users are encouraged to upgrade existing tools and check out the new packages. Release 1.4 is intended to be operated with R version 1.9.x, which can be obtained at CRAN

For various reasons, I spent part of my time today looking at sample size and power calculation tools (don't ask, don't tell...). This seems to be one area that R is incredibly weak in (well, nearly all stat packages, except perhaps specialized tools and SAS); sure, there are a number of functions in various packages: base, statmod, Hmisc Have I missed something? (I

look at http://www.omegahat.org/download/index.html for my part, i'm working on Window 2000 and got lots of problem in SJava building due to C code compilation... Cheers Bruno -----Message d'origine----- De : anthony.ferrari at ensimag.imag.fr [mailto:ferraria at ensisun.imag.fr] Envoy?? : jeudi 22 avril 2004 15:15 ?? : rossini at u.washington.edu Cc : r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch;

Hi to all who suffer from rterm not shutting down in xemacs/ESS on windows NT or 2000. Also hi to those who could eventually help. Here is some more information which could help and some ENCOURAGEMENT to contribute to a solution. 1. It may be an xemacs problem but it is more likely an interaction between rterm/comint/and xemacs. In fact, the problem started occurring around version R 1.6.0. I

Since it of partially related interest here: The Emacs Statistical System (Emacs Speaks Statistics) WWW site, along with all of the content formerly on software.biostat.washington.edu, is moving with me to a new location, http://www.analytics.washington.edu/ with ESS specifically moving to http://www.analytics.washington.edu/Zope/wikis/ess/ It isn't really done, but should be by a

At JSM, I spent a bit of time with old friends at the Cytel booth (makers of StatXact/LogXact). They were wondering whether it was both feasible and of interest to create a package of the StatXact compute engine for R (to be commercially licensed, not for free!), similar to what they've done for SAS. As far as I know, it's feasible, (this is not the first commercial external package,

Alvaro Munoz (Hopkins Epi) is patenting the "diamond graph". http://www.jhsph.edu/Press_Room/Press_Releases/Munoz_diamond_graph.html There is enough prior art (hexagonal binning, among others) to make this amusing, except that it probably will get a patent. It's a reasonable graphical technique, but patentable? best, -tony -- A.J. Rossini rossini at u.washington.edu

It is interesting how things have changed -- 5 weeks later, I review materials collected at the JSM, and notice that Springer-Verlag's glossy statistics catalog has 3 of 9 books on the front page directly or indirectly related to R (Peter D's intro book, MASS, and Parmigiani et.al's book with a number of Bioconductor-related chapters). (one could argue that 8 of 9 could use it -- it

Another example: Jerry Friedman's MART is available in R from Salford for the same price as the stand-alone TreeNet, even though they don't advertise it on their web site. Andy > -----Original Message----- > From: rossini at blindglobe.net [mailto:rossini at blindglobe.net] > Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 9:50 PM > To: rhelp > Cc: pralay at cytel.com > Subject: [R]

I've been having problems building vignettes in bioconductor packages with R-devel. Turns out that Rdevel/share/texmf/hyperref.cfg wants Blue and Red predefined, when only blue and red are defined (as of rsync Rdevel, Sept 10th). This is on a Debian unstable system (Sept 9th version). Might not apply to all other tetex systems. Seems to have bitten the bioconductor build system, though.

I'm trying to track down a rather critical problem. This happens both on Debian's current unstable as well a from anoncvs built this morning, reinstalling MASS. Is anyone else seeing this or am I just broken and special? 609$ /home/Rdevel/bin/R R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Version 1.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2004-03-04), ISBN 3-900051-00-3 R

In playing around with data.frames (and wanting a simple, cheap way to use the variable and case names in plots; but I've solved that with some hacks, yech), I noticed the following behavior with subsetting. testdata <- data.frame(matrix(1:20,nrow=4,ncol=5)) names(testdata) ## expect labels, get them names(testdata[2,]) ## expect labels, get them names(testdata[,2]) ## expect labels, but

The Bioconductor core group would like to announce the 1.3 release of the Bioconductor software. There are many new packages as well as several major upgrades and fixes in older packages, and users are encouraged to check them out. Release 1.3 is intended to be operated with R version 1.8.X, which can be obtained at CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org/) -- WHAT FEATURES DOES THIS RELEASE PROVIDE?