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Is there a way to "unplug" the windows graphics from R, so that it will work across a teletype telnet session or in a Linux box proving resistant to having windows added to it? Thanks Jonathan Myles -- Dr. Jonathan Myles e-mail:jonathan.myles at mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk MRC Biostatistics Unit Tel. 01223 330371 Institute of Public Health FAX 01223 330388 University Forvie

Is there any way of running R in ESS using -n and -v arguments other than the default? Thanks Jonathan -- Dr. Jonathan Myles e-mail:jonathan.myles at mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk MRC Biostatistics Unit Tel. 01223 330371 Institute of Public Health FAX 01223 330388 University Forvie Site Robinson Way CAMBRIDGE CB2 2SR

Where are the archives of r-help kept, please? Jonathan -- Dr. Jonathan Myles e-mail:jonathan.myles at mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk MRC Biostatistics Unit Tel. 01223 330371 Institute of Public Health FAX 01223 330388 University Forvie Site Robinson Way CAMBRIDGE CB2 2SR -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list --

I have C routines in a collection of files "/homef/jonm/postdocs/GLMM_project/Cprogs/nn/misc.o" "/homef/jonm/postdocs/GLMM_project/Cprogs/nn/random.o" "/homef/jonm/postdocs/GLMM_project/Cprogs/nn/ars.o" ... etc , where the third file includes functions which call functions in the second. In S, the function > gload function() {

Changing from 0.64.1 to 0.64.2 is causing some dynamically-loaded code to crash with the message: ld.so.1: /usr/local/lib/R/bin/R.binary: fatal: relocation error: file /homef/jonm/glib/ggg/libs/glmm.so: symbol R_chk_calloc: referenced symbol not found (I've added carriage returns) what am I doing wrong? Jonathan -- Dr. Jonathan Myles e-mail:jonathan.myles at mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk

(I dithered a bit about whether this belongs on r-help (as part of it is a general R question) or r-devel (as it's a question relating to putting stuff on CRAN) but decided it might be of general enough interest to go on the former ) I am currently preparing an R library to estimate approximate posterior distributions for parameters in Generalised Linear Mixed Models by Gibbs Sampling

Is there a platform-independent way of checking in R whether a given file exists in the user's filespace? (so in a unix system, can you check within R whather, say, /homef/jonm/thisfile exists) Thanks Jonathan Myles -- Dr. Jonathan Myles e-mail:jonathan.myles at mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk MRC Biostatistics Unit Tel. 01223 330372 Institute of Public Health FAX 01223 330388

Is there any way of getting just the LaTex output which R CMD Rd2dvi generates on the way to produces a .dvi file, which could then be incoorporated into another document? Thanks, Jonathan -- Dr. Jonathan Myles e-mail:jonathan.myles at mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk MRC Biostatistics Unit Tel. 01223 330372 Institute of Public Health FAX 01223 330388 University Forvie Site

Has anyone tried to build R on Suns by linking to the versions of BLAS and LINPACK in the Sun Performance Library rather than the standard versions included in the distribution? On the face of it this would seem to be a highly desirable thing to do since these versions of the routines are more efficient and can exploit parallelism on multiprocessor machines. David Clayton MRC Biostatistics

When reading comma-delimited files as saved from a spreadsheet (unfortunately many of my scientific collaborators give me these) in read.table(), missing values are spotted most of the time. Unfortunately when comma is the first character on the line it gets it wrong. For example, reading the file 1,,3 ,5,6 ,8,9 with read.table("test.dat", header=F, sep=",") R gives

I want to cite R for an article. What is the right thing to do? Shall I include "Notes on R" or is there a better way? -- mailto:koloska at rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~koloska/ -- -- right now the web page is in german only but this will change as time goes by ;-)

In S-Plus, one can invoke a shell command by prepending it with a "!", e.g.: > !ls Is something similar available in R? Is it possible to execute shell commands from within R? Fredrik -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info",

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you! To clarify some questions in the recent thread on the timeslab package (sorry that I couldn't participate in the discussion, but I normally don't read my email on weekends): *) Nobody should be able to download from the incoming section at our site. That it was possible (again) was due to recursive link and some lazy sysadmins which now have some more things

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you! To clarify some questions in the recent thread on the timeslab package (sorry that I couldn't participate in the discussion, but I normally don't read my email on weekends): *) Nobody should be able to download from the incoming section at our site. That it was possible (again) was due to recursive link and some lazy sysadmins which now have some more things

I'm using R for calculations and plots in a statistical paper. Is there a canonical reference to use in the bibliography? (Or is it not common to acknowledge computer programs in journal papers?) -- Bj?rn-Helge Mevik <bhm at math.uio.no> -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read

Dear R users, That's probably a silly question even for a newbie but : Is it possible to assign variable prices as variable names ? For instance, would something like the following work : for (i in 1:4) { error.i <- some_calculation } so "error.i" variables would be created for i=1,2,3,4 i.e. error.1 error.2 error.3 etc. etc. Costas --

Hi I am trying to use the deriv and eval functions to obtain the value of a function , say "xi-(alpha0+alpha1*gi)" , differentiated with respect to alpha0 and alpha1, in the following way # for gi = 0 > dU1dtheta <- deriv(~ xi-(alpha0+alpha1*gi), c("alpha0","alpha1")) > eval(dU1dtheta) (Intercept) -0.2547153 attr(,"gradient")

> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 17:34:37 +0000 (GMT) > From: Jonathan Myles <mylesj at icrf.icnet.uk> > > I've now got a colleague at MRC-BSU to compress it, and email it as an > attachment to my UNIX machine, where I uncompressed it and then ftp'ed > it in ascii format to my laptop. So it doesn't seem to be an ascii/bin > issue ... Is it possible to get a binary

Hello, I've been looking in the on-line manuals and searching past posts but can't find an answer to this question. I'd like to define my own variance function in a GLM. The function glm(formula, family=quasi(var="var function")) lets me choose from a selection of built in variances, but I want to define my own function for the variance. Is there an S-plus

Hello, I've had a quick look on the list and can't find an answer to this niggle. Whilst debugging some code, I noticed that looping variables in R are not local to the loop as seams common in procedural languages. For example consider the following piece of code: for(i in 1:3){ cat(i,"") for(i in c("a","b","c")){ cat(i,"")