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Dear all, I can't see how setGeneric() works. I know perfectly well how to define library(methods); setClass("Square", representation(side="numeric")); # Will become the default method. getArea <- function(object) { stop(paste("Method getArea() is not defined for this class:", data.class(object))); } setMethod("getArea",

When loading a package with library(APkg) or require(APkg) I would like to make sure that (1) the correct version of [R] is installed. If not an informative error message should be given. I would also like to make sure that (2) another required package which is loaded from within the APkg package (by require(OtherPkg)) is of a certain version or later. First of all, I believe that the check

Is there a weighted median function out there similar to weighted.mean() but for medians? If not, I'll try implement or port it myself. The need for a weighted median came from the following optimization problem: x* = arg_x min (a|x| + sum_{k=1}^n |x - b_k|) where a : is a *positive* real scalar x : is a real scalar n : is an integer b_k: are negative and positive scalars

Full_Name: Henrik Bengtsson Version: 1.3.1 OS: WinMe Submission from: (NULL) (130.235.2.229) I found the following bug on WinMe (I call it a bug, since the behavior is different on WinMe than for instance Sun Solaris): When calling file.exists() with an existing directory name ending with a "/" (slash) [R] on WinMe will return FALSE, but when doing the same without the ending

A binary distribution of R-1.4.0 to run on Windows 95, 98, NT4.0, 2000 and XP on Intel/clone chips is available at http://sirio.stat.unipd.it/RWin It will be mirrored at a CRAN site near you in a couple of days. See http://sirio.stat.unipd.it/RWin/CHANGES for a list of Windows-specific changes. guido masarotto

A binary distribution of R-1.4.0 to run on Windows 95, 98, NT4.0, 2000 and XP on Intel/clone chips is available at http://sirio.stat.unipd.it/RWin It will be mirrored at a CRAN site near you in a couple of days. See http://sirio.stat.unipd.it/RWin/CHANGES for a list of Windows-specific changes. guido masarotto

I raised the questions below a couple of months ago by sending it to the developers mailing list, but I don't know if it got through since no one replied to it. Looking at the [R] distribution, the UseMethod() is used in the following way: alias <- function(object, ...) UseMethod("alias") or barplot <- function(height, ...) UseMethod("barplot") What I

hist(rbinom(1000,10,0.5),col=2,xlim=c(0,10),ylim=c(0,300)) gives a histogram with "touching bars" hist(rbinom(100000,10,0.5),col=2,xlim=c(0,10),ylim=c(0,30000)) gives a histogram with space between the bars. is there a way to control the space betweent he bars easily? -- Erich Neuwirth, Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at

Hi (again), let's say I want to create a class Matrix that extends the class matrix, but I can't get it to work. I define the class as > setClass("Matrix", "matrix") > getClass("Matrix") No Slots, prototype of class "matrix" Extends: Class "matrix" directly. Class "structure" by class "matrix".

Is there a straightforward way to convert character information from decimal representation to the octal one used by R? I'd like something like a function ascii(number,base=10), such that > ascii(91) [1] "\133" I can easily do the mapping from 91 to 133, but what is a good way to operate on 133 to deliver "\133"? Would a lookup table be a better solution? David

Hi! I'm trying to use readline() to ask for xlim() and ylim() values for a subsequent plot. I'm doing: lim <- readline("Enter xlim and ylim values: ") then would like to use the values in lim for a plot: plot(etc, xlim=lim[1:2],ylim=lim[3:4]) The problem is that lim is a character,i.e., "10,20,-10,50" or "c(10,20,-10,50)" depending on the input to

Where should the setClass() ('methods' package) calls be placed in a package? I try to follow a one-class-one-file principe, but since setClass("ClassA", "ClassB") has to come a after setClass("ClassB", [snip]) it is not possible to fully follow this rule. So the best I can do now is to put all setClass() calls in a file named "000.R" (I know this

I would like to define a function at run-time, but I just can't make it work (please don't question why I want to do this, because that would be too much to explain). For example, I want to define the the following function foo <- function(x) { cat("Function", "foo", "was called with argument", x, ".\n") } However, I would like to

I'm frightfully new at developing r packages. I'm developing an econometrics package, and each time I update my beta package, I close R, delete the package dir in the library dir, rebuild the zip file, rerun R, reinstall the package and run the functions. Is there a more efficient way? Jeff. Jeff D. Hamann Hamann, Donald & Associates, Inc. PO Box 1421 Corvallis, Oregon USA 97339-1421

Dear all/anyone, after generating a HTML file "result.html" from within [R], I would like to open the default HTML browser (like help.start() does) to show the file. Is it possible to do this (without trying to do a system dependent search for possible browsers)? I browsed the source of package 'base' (R v1.4.1 WinMe) and I found the following in help():

Hi, I am trying to find the fastest way to "find the last index k such that x[k] < y in a *sorted* vector x" These are my two alternatives: x <- sort(rnorm(1e4)) y <- 0.2 # Alt 1 k <- max(1, sum(x < y)) # Alt 2 "divide and conquer" lastIndexLessThan <- function(x, y) { k0 <- 1; k1 <- length(x) while ((dk <- (k1 - k0)) >

I use smooth.spline(x, y) in package modreg and I would like to get value of penalized log likelihood and preferable also its two parts. To make clear what I am asking for (and make sure that I am asking for the right thing) I clarify my problem trying to use the same notation as in help(smooth.spline): I want to find the natural cubic spline f(x) such that L(f) = \sum_{k=1}{n} w[k](y[k] -

I am investigating how well R/tcltk is supported on different system and I ran into the same problem as Christian Schulz reported on February 7, 2002. I am using [R] v1.4.1 on WinMe and ActiveTcl 8.3.2. Loading tcltk within Rgui works just fine and both demo(tkdensity) and demo(tkttest) works as expected. However, when I start R from my Cygwin terminal dyn.load() fails to load the library: % R

Estimados, Les tengo una pequeña consulta. Estoy trabajando con ASReml en Rstudio, me encuentro corriendo un modelo (CHL) para obtener el ANOVA de la interacción de los factores gen x env CHL<- asreml(fixed= MS~geno:env, random = ~rep, data = index) (interacción) Sin embargo, cuando ejecuto el modelo, R indica que siguiente mensaje: Current workspace: 128.000000Mb Warning message: Abnormal

I have tried to find a neat way to include graphs from R in LaTeX documents, but have not succeeded (I work with a WinEdt/MikTeX combination). The two roads I have stumbled along so far are the following: *Generate postscript files and convert them into EPS files by means of GhostScript or other not so straightforward tools. *Generate pictex files and include these. None of these solutions have