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If one specifies new options in a package, using the options() function, where does/should one document these new options? E.g. suppose that I put the line options(melvin=42) in a file zzz.R in the R directory of the package source, where the package contains functions foo(), bar(), clyde(), and irving() which all query options("melvin") and take some action based on the value of

Just now I again had occasion to want nested describe lists in a documentation file. I found that the bug which I reported on 18 October, 2001 still persists. I checked on the bug report at the R web page, and found that the notes say ``Not a problem in R 1.4.0 (2001-12-08)''. Well, it's still a problem for me --- using R 1.4.1. (Details: platform sparc-sun-solaris2.7 arch

I'm getting an anomalous result from using the itemize command in a documentation file. My usage is something like \itemize{ \item Melvin \item Irving \item Clyde \item Fred } (This was place inside ``\details{ }''.) (Previously I had enclosed the text following each item in braces but that gave even worse results.) The package appears to install OK; i.e. the command R

I am trying to build a function in a context where the environment concept would appear to be useful. But I'm a bit foggy about this concept and would appreciate some pointers and advice. Basically the function I'm building, say foo(x,t), is a function of two variables). Depending on the value of t, foo will return one of the values f1(x), f2(x), ..., fk(x), where each of f1, ..., fk is

On 5/11/19 3:41 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote: > For what it's worth, I don't think this strategy can work in general, > because a class might have attributes that depend on its data/contents > (e.g. https://vctrs.r-lib.org/articles/s3-vector.html#cached-sum). I > don't think these are particularly common in practice, but it's > dangerous to assume that you can restore a

On 04/11/2019 4:40 p.m., Pages, Herve wrote: > Hi Rolf, > > On 11/4/19 12:28, Rolf Turner wrote: >> >> On 5/11/19 3:41 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote: >> >>> For what it's worth, I don't think this strategy can work in general, >>> because a class might have attributes that depend on its data/contents >>> (e.g. >>>

R CMD check tells me * checking R code for possible problems ... NOTE agexact.fit.rds: ... may be used in an incorrect context: ?optim(init, agfitfn, ...)? Warning: <anonymous>: ... may be used in an incorrect context: ?optim(init, agfitfn, ...)? Can anyone tell me what this message means? My searches haven't turned up anything useful. This is with R 2.7 and 2.9. The message

Dear forum, I would like to use the kernel2d or spkernel2d in the Splancs-package, but it does not recognize my polygon data. "Error in kernel2d(as.points(ptsbin), polygonprov, h0 = 2, nx = 100, : " is the error message. Invalid poly argument The data are defined as follows: polgonprov<-list(x=polyprov$X, y=polyprov$Y) with X and Y coordinates in the Lambert1972

I had an error message while running a macro from Yudi Pawitan's web site: > source("ex2-13.r") Error in parse(file, n, text, prompt) : syntax error on line 2 Inspecting ex2-13.r I found that the error was generated by another source() command. Clearly R does not like nested source()s, which is fair enough when you think about it. Still it's something that you might want

I'm experiencing a new and annoying phenomenon which seems to consist of an unfortunate interaction between R-1.7.0 and netscape version 7. When I invoke help.start(), a netscape window duly appears with the browser pointed at the file .../R/doc/html/index.html as one would hope and expect. However if I then ask for help on a function, e.g. > help(glm) the help does NOT get displayed

I gather from reading the back-issues of r-help that it should be possible (modulo a number of caveats) to read an excel (yuck!) file into R using RODBC. I have obtained and installed ODBC and the RODBC package, but cannot for the life of me figure out how to go about it. Can anyone give me a simple recipe? I have an excel file on cdrom, say: /mnt/cdrom/melvin.xls I have started R and loaded

Hi, I'm a biologist, so please forgive me if my question sounds absurd! I have 3 parameters x1, x2, x3 and a response variable y.The sample size is 75. I tried to do the following: mylm<-lm(y~ x1 + x2 + x3, data="mydata") but i can only get stats from anova for the first 2 variables. The third comes up as NA. The degrees of freedom for the third variable are 0. Is there

I've just installed version 1.4.0 of R, and am experiencing a puzzling phenomenon with the library() function. I have .lib.loc set as follows: > .lib.loc [1] "/usr/local/lib/R/library" "/home/faculty/rolf/Rlib" If I invoke > library(melvin) I get the error message Error in library(melvin) : There is no package called `melvin' but if I invoke >

I've built R functions to ``effect'' a particular distribution, and would like to find out if that distribution is already ``known'' by an existing name. (I.e. suppose it were called the ``Melvin'' distribution --- I've built dmelvin, pmelvin, qmelvin, and rmelvin as it were, but I need a real name to substitute for melvin.) The distribution is really just a toy

Greetings to all -- I am having a silly problem that I just can't solve. Someone has given me an .RData file will hundreds of data frames. Each data frame has a column named ResultValue, currently character when it should be numeric. I want to loop through all of the data frames to change the variable to numeric, but I cannot figure out how to do it. My best guess was along the lines of:

Hi, How to save an R object for example a matrix or vector and not all objects created in a session (which is usually performed by save.image or q("yes"))? Best, Carol [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hello List, i have been agonizing over this for days, any reply would be greatly appreciated! Situation:___________________________________ My original dataset is a .csv dataset (w/ 2M records) with 4 variables: job_id (Primary key, won't be used for analysis, just used for join tables), sector_id (categorical variable, for 19 industry sectors), sqft (con't variable for square

Hi Rolf, On 11/4/19 12:28, Rolf Turner wrote: > > On 5/11/19 3:41 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote: > >> For what it's worth, I don't think this strategy can work in general, >> because a class might have attributes that depend on its data/contents >> (e.g. >>

On 5/11/19 10:54 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 04/11/2019 4:40 p.m., Pages, Herve wrote: >> Hi Rolf, >> >> On 11/4/19 12:28, Rolf Turner wrote: >>> >>> On 5/11/19 3:41 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote: >>> >>>> For what it's worth, I don't think this strategy can work in general, >>>> because a class might have attributes

You can try for testing with a column of class errors, from the package 'errors'. The attributes depend on the content in the way Hadley pointed out. I?aki El lun., 4 nov. 2019 23:19, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> escribi?: > On 5/11/19 10:54 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > On 04/11/2019 4:40 p.m., Pages, Herve wrote: > >> Hi Rolf, > >> >