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Hello, In ?set.seed I notice that a seed is created from the system time. Thus if two machines were (hypothetically) running for the same time and R was started simultaneously on both, the would have the same seeds (correct?). I assume reading from /dev/random would be different for both of these machines, so my question is why not use an integer read from /dev/random to create the seed? Would

In our rails application, there is a model called Essay and another called Tag. Essay ''has_and_belongs_to_many'' tags. When a user CREATEs an essay, he gives the text in a text field which corresponds to a database column in the essays table. The _form.rhtml also provides a text area that lets the user tag the essay with keywords. The text area does not correspond directly to

Hi, I am a doctoral student and I want to have a study about the automated essay scoring system. From some papers the authors mentioned that some experiments of the automated essay scoring study are using the package of the R open source software. I am a new learner of R and I would like to know which package of R can be used to serve this purpose and how to do then. Grateful if you could give me

definitely special. | Subject: The Room | | 17-year-old Brian Moore had only a short time to write something for a | class. The subject was what Heaven was like. "I wowed 'em," he later told | his father, Bruce. "It's a killer. It's the bomb. It's the best thing I | ever | wrote." It also was the last. | Brian's parents had forgotten about the essay

Hi R-help, I have a database of 10 students who have written an overall of 78 essays. The challenge? I would like to identify who wrote the 79th essay. Has anybody used R in this context? Even if not, would you suggest me which pattern recognition technique I might possibly apply? Thanks a lot and regards, Tom --------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version

Hi list, I''m having another problem deploying my Rails application. I set up the servers and apache2 configuration using the excellent essay by Duncan Davidson: http://duncandavidson.com/essay/2006/01/railsonapache However, he describes proxying using a subdomain. What if I want to proxy the requests of www.domain.com/railsapp/<url> to www.domain.com:8888/<url> and reverse

Hello, I would like to use EPB asso on 2010 (french soft) with Wine. I tried with winhq 1.1.42 and does not even manage to install the framework 2 SP2 Microsoft. I tried winehq 1.3.6. The software settles down but jams in the appearance of the logo. I do not speak English well I use Lenny --------------- Bonjour, Je voudrais utiliser EPB asso 2010 avec Wine. J'ai essay? avec winhq 1.1.42

Bonjour tout le monde, J'ai un PDC samba 3.0.0 sur une redhat 7.3, le tout ratach? ? un LDAP. Les postes clients sont en Windows XP Pro. Je change mes mots de passe via Ctrl+Alt+Suppr depuis windows. Cel? marche pour les mots de passe de plus de 5 caract?res. En dessous de ce nombre, j'obtiens un message d'erreur dans windows, me sp?cifiant que le mot de passe doit faire au

If you have a few minutes to enter this questionnaire you''re help will be very appreciated. The results will be used in an essay on RoR with respect to maintainability. Thank you for your time QUESTIONNAIRE: 1 What is the size of your company ? 2 What is the size of the Ruby on Rails projects your team realized ? 3 Do you, and if so how, use scaffolding to generate parts of your

Probably not the best time to ask this considering people are busy for the next release, but we're looking at trac for a project (apparently) and I remembered that there was a Xiph plan to move away from it. Does anyone have time to recall the reasons (I don't need an essay, just a keyword or two would be appreciated. -- imalone

Hi all Why Rails 3 installation is so pane full...? I am using fedora 10, ruby 1.8.6 rails 2.3.5/2.3.8 Now want to upgrade to rails3 i tried so many links... but nothing find essay.. for Rails 3 problem in ruby installation please suggest good links ... Thanks.... Regards Shyam 971-618-9650 shyam.heroku.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

- Peut-on poser des questions en fran?ais? - Tr?s simple. Je fais un programme "truc.r" (sous emacs) Ce programme r?alise des graphiques. Je voudrais les enregistrer au fur et ? mesure -- sinon, quand la session est finie, ces graphiques sont perdus-- J'ai essay?: pdf("truc.pdf") Mais le fichier "truc.pdf" cr?? est vide. Comment fait-on? Merci et salutations

So after recompiling ruby a few times to get ssl and readline working, fighting with lighty for awhile, and learning a bit more about linux in the process, I think I''m really close to getting i2 up and running. However, when I try to access my wiki, I get either a blank page or an error 500 and the stack trace below gets sent to the log. If I can''t get this working soon

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/alpha/dovecot-1.2.alpha2.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/alpha/dovecot-1.2.alpha2.tar.gz.sig Mainly the same fixes as in v1.1.3 -> v1.1.4 plus some more v1.2-specific fixes. Not many people have been testing v1.2 releases. Wonder if there's something I could do to improve that. I guess v1.2 is kind of missing those killer features that would get a

Is it possible with Ferret to find the location of the matches in a document? For example imagine I have 100 documents and I search with the phrase "bob~0.5" and that returns 3 matching documents. How can I then find all locations in a specific document where it matched "bob~0.5". What I need is something like an array that contains the start index and length for each

i used the hivelogic article to install ruby on rails to my mac: http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger everything works great using the script/server command, but isn''t that still using WEBrick? how do i server my apps with lightTPD? i tried following the instructions given here: http://duncandavidson.com/essay/2005/12/railsonlighty but have had no

Hi All, Anybody know how to make R emit base64 encoded text in some way that perl can grab it, instead of planting a file on your harddrive when calling JPEG or PNG? I've managed to get these scripts to work and put a file on the harddisk #!/usr/bin/perl -Wall # by jin kee. a simple script to demonstrate # the needed steps to get R to emit a jpeg. use strict; my($callR, $callRold); # need

Dear R-users, Thanks to Friedrich Leisch, my document "R pour les d?butants" is available on CRAN in the contributed documentation section: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Rdebuts.pdf. It is written in French. "R pour les d?butants" ("R for beginners") gives a starting point for people with no experience with R (or S). I tried to explain the basics in the

Dear R-users, Thanks to Friedrich Leisch, my document "R pour les d?butants" is available on CRAN in the contributed documentation section: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Rdebuts.pdf. It is written in French. "R pour les d?butants" ("R for beginners") gives a starting point for people with no experience with R (or S). I tried to explain the basics in the

Hello, I am having trouble installing the package from CRAN. As the package compiles I get: * installing *source* package ‘RDieHarder’ ... ** package ‘RDieHarder’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for