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Hello, I am using the function step.gam() from the 'gam' package (header info from library(help=gam) included below) and have come across some behavior that I cannot understand. In short, I have written a function that 1) creates a dataframe, 2) calls gam() to create a gam object, then 3) calls step.gam() to run stepwise selection on the output from gam(). When I do this, gam()

Hello, I am trying to get a surface plot of a data set that looks like the following, 1 2 5.6 5 9 2.4 9 8 9.8 ... to (60,000 rows down) From my homework, the persp function only works with evenly spaced data points with the z data beeing in a matrix. my data is not in that format. the wireframe fxn gives me an error, no applicable method for "wireframe" the

Hi, I have two separate questions relating to the KernSmooth package. I am using the dpik function from the KernSmooth package and receive the error Warning message: In kappam * Gcounts : longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length I saw an earlier post , but the issue was using the bkde fxn and the person appeared to be using too small of a bandwidth.

A view display.rhtml sees no controller state variables set in the corresponding display action. Why? -- fxn

I left ":memory:" in database.yml for testing and the most simple tests in the Agile book do not work (see trace below for test_truth). Since that''s what comes with the distributed database.yml I suppose it''s me doing something wrong. Did someone get SQLite ":memory:" working? How does it grab the schema? -- fxn % rake test_units (in

In Depot, the demo application in the the Agile book, actions that modify the model such as add_to_cart redirect to another action that has a clear view role, like index, or show_cart, instead of generating the view themselves. This uses an HTTP redirect that goes to the client and returns. Is this an idiomatic way to design the flow in Rails? -- fxn

My application uses only UTF-8. Which is the canonical place to do something global like setting $KCODE? -- fxn

I would like to distribute Iconv for Windows with my Rails application (developing on a Mac, no experience with dlls). I threw iconv.dll and charset.dll under lib without luck. Where would I need to put them (if this is possible at all)? -- fxn PS: The reported error message is in Spanish but translated reads something like "the specified process was not found: Init_iconv".

I have a bunch of queries to compute some counters, like find_by_sql(<<-SQL SELECT p.*, c.nfavourites FROM people p, ( SELECT fp.person_id, COUNT(fp.user_id) as nfavourites FROM favourite_people fp, users u WHERE fp.user_id = u.id AND u.cluster = ''#{in_cluster_of_user.cluster}'' GROUP BY fp.person_id ) as c WHERE

I have an application with 15 migrations under version control. In a Mac and and in a Windows, a rake migrate from scratch runs them all just fine. But in a different Windows machine rake migrate stops after migration 3 for no apparent reason. --trace seems normal. No error is reported. Both Windows are XP SP2. They all have the same svn revision and Rails-related software, database is

I am pondering the possibility of encrypting/decrypting some fields in a SQLite backend on-the-fly. The point of the message is not security, I know that''s broken, but whether there''s a technique that provides on-the-fly save/read filters. Of course the solution would need to work transparently in joins, so user.posts.last.title would do the right thing if title

I read in the instructions of Tracks that "upgrading via the rake migrate command is quite a bit more tricky currently with SQLite and SQLite3". Is there any gotcha regarding migrations and SQLite3? -- fxn

I have a model that I''ve been indexing and searching with ferret with no problems. I just added a counter_cache for some voting functionality to the same model and now when I perform the voting fxn on an object from that model, I get the FileNotFound error as it looks for a file named "_1c_1.del" ...which breaks my voting function. I tried killing the server and my index

I am going to start a project from scratch with MySQL. Is it a good idea to go ahead with MySQL 5? Is there any gotcha with that version as of today? -- fxn "We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can''t agree on when it''s necessary to compromise." -- Larry Wall in comp.lang.perl

I have just some vague and thus probably wrong ideas about when to use model() in controllers, and by now I err on being redundant. I don''t post them here to avoid leaving anything that may be false in the archives. Can anyone explain exactly in which cases one should use model()? -- fxn

What''s the standard way to prevent race conditions in controllers? Say user has many posts. Post controller has action add_post that receives user id, post controller find()s the user and while he is creating the post entry an administrator deletes that user in a separate session. We cannot assume the database checks foreign key integrity. How do you get that right? -- fxn

I just grabbed 0.10.13 and tried to build it on Solaris, but the generated Makefile uses cc, which is not installed. gcc is installed but some options like -KPIC are not valid. I did a search with no luck, except that I see people compiling ferret with gcc on Solaris somehow. What should I do? -- fxn PS: Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.11 snv_43 October 2007

After a fresh installation of an application, some utility scripts run with script/runner quietly aborted right after their start. No error message whatsoever, just a new shell prompt. The reason was an uninstalled dependecy, but that was difficult to determine because the load failure was not reported: % ruby script/runner ''require "foobarbaz"'' % Why

Is there a place where differences between development and production environments (with default settings) are enumerated? -- fxn

Controllers receive form fields sent by observe_remote_form as a raw query string. Is there some utility to construct a hash of params from it? -- fxn