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Has anyone had success getting R-unix postscript plots into powerpoint for the Mac? Mac powerpoint doesn't seem to like postscript, and conversions to tiff, jpeg, and gif, using the netpbm converters, have produced less than stellar results (i.e. bitmaps with unaliases pixels, sigh...). Thoughts? The next one I had was to use GIMP (this is a linux system) to clean it up, and it worked, but

Where is the best place to put evaluation/test code in creating an R package? I thought about a test subdirectory, but might it be better to put in the R directory? I guess I'm more concerned about the output used for evaluating the success of the test, rather than the test code and data, itself. best, -tony -- A.J. Rossini UW Biostatistics & Center for AIDS Research 206-543-1044 /

What's the current best approach to dealing with the nlminb problem? Are there other similar constrained optimizers, or is current wisdom just to code it in C (or similar...)? best, -tony -- A.J. Rossini Research Assistant Professor of Biostatistics Biostatistics/Univ. of Washington (Th) Box 357232 206-543-1044 (3286=fax) Center for AIDS Research/HMC/UW (M/F) Box 359931

One thing that has driven me batty to no end is the fact that ESS doesn't handle R's "exit" well. Any thoughts as to the default? I'm thinking of something like: current: do what currently is done C-u Y C-c C-q : quit and save workspace C-u N C-c C-q : quit and don't save workspace. Comments? best, -tony -- A.J. Rossini Rsrch. Asst.

Federico Mattia STEFANINI <stefanin@stat.ds.unifi.it> writes: > I would like to use emacs and R under windows95/98/NT. > > Is there an ESS for microsoft based implementations of R? You can use ESS and either XEmacs 21.0 (currently wrapping up beta) or NTEmacs, or Emacs(FSF) to edit files. IF the mingwin(?) or cygwin versions of R allow for command-line prompts rather than

There's a bit of a symmetry issue, which may or may not be important (led to 15 seconds of confusion until I got my bearings straight): row.names, rownames; colnames, no col.names? I _NOW_ realize the difference between row.names and rownames, but is there any reason not to have col.names for re-naming columns in a data.frame? (if there is, I don't particular need to know it, but it

Suppose one wanted to build an R wizard for packaging... One would need to specify and create: package-name/ package-name/Description package-name/INDEX package-name/R/ package-name/man/ package-name/src/ >From this, we'd "probably" like to: - script-up the Description - provide a script for regenerating INDEX by calling out to the

>>>>> "MM" == Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> writes: >>>>> "FrL" == Friedrich Leisch <Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes: FrL> This is not only a problem of bug.report(), but of providing FrL> a working editor in ESS ... because the same happens if you FrL> say edit(lm) or of whatever object you

(thanks to thomas for assistance; I'm posting this for archival reasons). Question: My silly dataset looks like "00223423", "00234234", ... and when I read it in, I get a factor which looks like and integer. How do I convert it back? (i.e. I've got something like: > hivplasma [1] 00050400 00219000 00136000 00000906 00142000 00002150 00000400 00001880 [9]

After installing nlme_3.1-7.tar.gz under the latest R (1.2.0, via anonymous CVS), I'm unable to get it to work, i.e.: rossini 94 > /usr/local/bin/R R : Copyright 2000, The R Development Core Team Version 1.2.0 Under development (unstable) (2000-12-06) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type

Duncan - (but sent to R-devel, for any other thoughts?) How do you envision RSPerl being used? Without having seen the details, I can think of playing with strings; is there a preferred incantation for stringification of R objects (serialization)? (actually, the main problem I'm having is that I know how I want to code something like: Robject <-

Is there a simple way to determine at run-time the directory with HTML version of help pages? (to see where I'm heading here, if you've got w3 installed under (X)Emacs on Unix _or_ a Microsoft OS, do w3-find-file and load $(R_HOME)/library/html/whateverfunction.html It's slightly nicer than the standard ESS text-help. best, -tony -- A.J. Rossini Rsrch. Asst.

I know it isn't done often, so apologies if this posting offends. But after posting the announcement of the open position to a number of other software lists, I was thinking, why not to R-help? (esp since knowing R is one option for meeting the requirements). best, -tony We are looking for an masters level statistician. If interested, feel free to apply. I am available to answer

In R 0.63 RINSTALL of a package with documentation still appears to clobber R/doc/html/function.html and R/doc/html/packages.html so the main help is no longer available to a user once a package is installed. I know how to work around this for my own purposes, but I hesitate to release a package that would do this to some unsuspecting user. Paul Gilbert

seek(zz,where=NewPosition) returns the OldPosition of connection zz (of the appropriate "pointer", i.e. read or write). Currently, the docs have: > Details: > > `seek' with `where = NA' returns the current byte offset of a > connection (from the beginning), and with a positive `where' > argument the connection is re-positioned (if possible) to

could we add an argument to suppress printing of levels for print.factor()? i.e.: print.factor <- function (x, quote = FALSE, print.levels = TRUE, ...) ## MODIFIED { if (length(x) <= 0) cat("factor(0)\n") else print(as.character(x), quote = quote, ...) if (print.levels) { ## ADDED cat("Levels:

Thanks to Tony Plate for letting me know what the abbreviate.arg option does. I think this could be made more flexible (I.e. =TRUE, =FALSE, =#, where # would be passed to the abbreviate min.length argument). But it follows the example I was given. "print.factor" <- function (x, quote = FALSE, max.levels=5, print.levels = {if (max.levels==0) FALSE else TRUE},

for Spam. In the process of setting up a more effective spam filtering system, I just noticed that bogofilter, which implements extensions of the (a?) "Naive Bayes" text classification approach, will dump out R data frames; the man page suggests how to "integrate" it with R for verification. (sort of, that is). Anyway, for those of you looking for silly and perhaps

anoncvs for R should work again. If you use it, please try it. If you use it and don't particularly want it to go away (rsync gets you the source w/o the logs, but if you particularly want the logs and the ability to create diffs between revisions, like I sometimes want to do...), you might say something. If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's probably not important.

anoncvs for R should work again. If you use it, please try it. If you use it and don't particularly want it to go away (rsync gets you the source w/o the logs, but if you particularly want the logs and the ability to create diffs between revisions, like I sometimes want to do...), you might say something. If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's probably not important.