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In R-beta (Masked Marvel), when I do the example from the read.pnm help file, this is what happens: x <- read.pnm(system.file("pictures/logo.pgm",package="pixmap")[1]) Warning message: In rep(cellres, length=2): x is NULL so the result will be NULL In R-2.15.3, it's all right. Thanks, Erin Erin M. Hodgess, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Computer and

Hello! Over the weekend, I updated my RcmdrPlugin.qual package. It works fine on a 64 bit Windows machine but not a 32 bit. This is very strange. The new menu with all of the Quality Control stuff does not appear. Have any of you run into this sort of thing before, please? Thanks, Sincerely, Erin Erin M. Hodgess, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences

Dear R People: I have a question about a "sorting" problem, please. I have a vector xx: > xx [1] -2.0 1.4 -1.2 -2.2 0.4 1.5 -2.2 0.2 -0.4 -0.9 and a vector of breaks: > xx.y [1] -2.2000000 -0.9666667 0.2666667 1.5000000 I want to produce another vector z which contains the number of the class that each data point is in. for instance, xx[1] is between xx.y[1] and

Dear R Developers: Is there a way to look at the underlying code from such items as R_setup_starma, please? Thanks, Erin Erin M. Hodgess, PhD Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgesse@uhd.edu [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R Debian People: I have put this on regular R help as well, but thought that I'd try here too. I updated to R-2.10.0 on Ubuntu Karmic Koala via apt-get update, apt-get install. Then I had a problem that said that I need MASS <= R-2.9.2. Fair enough. Uwe Ligges was kind enough to point out that I needed to use > update.packges(checkBuilt=TRUE) So I did. Now the menu on Rcmdr

Hi again. On Windows, when I try to use the "install packages" from the menu, there is no Rcmdr and no RcmdrPlugins to be seen. thanks, Erin Erin M. Hodgess, PhD Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgesse@uhd.edu [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R People: When the D function is used for a symbolic derivative, an expression is returned, which is fine. How do you change that expression to a function, please? I've been experimenting with substitute and deparse, but no success yet. This is R 1.8.0 for Windows. thanks in advance for the help! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Hi Ryszard! There is a dist function in R. It's in the mva package. You can set the kind of distance that you want. Thanks, Erin mailto:hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R Developers: Why is it that the singular value decomposition is used when running regression with arima, please? I've been looking for a reference for that but have come up empty so far. Thank you for any help. Sincerely, Erin Erin M. Hodgess, PhD Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgesse@uhd.edu

Dear R Development People: I was trying to build R-2.12.2 from source on a Windows XP machine. Doing the make all recommended works fine, but building the bitmap dll is a problem. It seems to be in the libpng directory. I got libpng-1.5.1, and untarred it. However, there is no makefile.mingw file in the scripts directory. I then obtained a version of libpng-1.4.5, and the file is there.

Dear R People: I have a data frame with the following column names: > names(funky) [1] "UHD.1" "UHD.2" "UHD.3" "UHD.4" "L..W..1" "L..W..2" "L..W..3" [8] "L..W..4" "B..W..1" "B..W..2" "B..W..3" "B..W..4" "W..B..1" "W..B..2" [15]

Dear R Development People: I have written a couple of plugins for Rcmdr and they do not seem to work with R-2.11.0. Here is the output: > library(RcmdrPlugin.epack) Loading required package: Rcmdr Loading required package: tcltk Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done Loading required package: car --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Rcmdr Version 1.5-4 Attaching package:

Dear R Debian People: I have a desktop which has both Windows and Debian operating systems. If I am on the Debian side, is there a way to access file from the Windows side, please? Thanks, Erin Erin M. Hodgess, PhD Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgesse@uhd.edu [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R People: In the function "decompose", the object has the class of "decomposed.ts". (from package stats) I would like to see the class definition and the method for the plotting. However, when I use isClass("decomposed.ts") I get "FALSE". When I check getMethods("plot") there is no method for plot on decomposed.ts Any suggestions,

Dear R People: Here is yet another strange problem. I'm using R in one of my classes. However, the computer lab has something called "Deep Freeze" and the students cannot save anything to the hard drive. I had R installed and things were working well. They would save their .Rdata files to disks. Now, we need to add more packages. We can't download and we can't bring

Dear R People: I will be teaching an undergraduate Design of Experiments class in the Spring Semester. It will be very much an applied course. My question, please: has anyone used R for a course like this, please? I've tried Rcmdr for a regression course and just plain command line for a time series course. Should I use Rcmdr, or teach them to use the command line, OR is there something

Dear R People: Suppose I have the following; xa <- c("There are 5 dogs") I would like to have a new character vector such that xb[1] is There xb[2] is are xb[3] is 5 xb[4] is dogs Since the original vector has length 1, substring will not work. Any suggestions would be MOST welcome! thanks Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences

Dear R People: Suppose I have the 4 numbers: 1,2,3,4. I would like to create a listing of the permutations of 4 items taken 4 at a time. Is there a built in function for that, please? Thanks in advance! R 2-3-1 for Windows or Linux Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R People: I am trying to split a character vector into a set of individual letters: Ideal: x3 <- c("dog") "d" "o" "g" I tried the following: > strsplit(x3) Error in strsplit(x3) : argument "split" is missing, with no default > strsplit(x3,1) [[1]] [1] "dog" I know that this is incredibly simple, but what am I doing

Dear R People: On the Edit menu, there is a GUI preference tab. On the Font option, the highest value is 18. Has anyone ever had the font size set larger than that will any success, please? Thanks, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu PS Windows, R 2-2-1