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Is there an archive of the mailing list? If so could someone please give the site address? Jan -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at

Will the real book "S Programming" please stand up. As I searched for this book both on AMAZON.COM and AMAZON.CO.UK, I found two different versions. On AMAZON.COM my search reveals S Programming (Statistics and Computing) by Brian D. Ripley, William N. Venables. Our Price: $59.95. Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Hardcover - 264 pages 1st edition (May 15, 2000) Springer

Hi, I have been using R for a few months now and I am confident that the language has everything I will need to complete my PhD. I can create functions, script files and packages, but I would like to write my programs more efficiently (maybe using OO). Can anyone recommend a good book on the "art" of good R programming? Kind Regards, Sam.

Hi R fans, I was trying to write some code in R when I realized that I was just writing a FORTRAN 77 style program in the R syntax, and hence coming nowhere near tapping the potential of R. I'm wondering what is a good reference that would help me get up to speed in programming in R (i.e., using these classes, methods, objects, accessor functions, and many other things I don't

I'm about to present a report (for internal use of governmental agency). I used extensively R , contibuted packages, as well as communications on the R-list As well as citing R, I would like to know how to cite the contributed packages (it is not so easy, as some have been used exensively, other marginally, some are called from another package and some were not used as softwares but gave me

Dear R People: Could someone direct me to some documentation on the difference between S3 and S4 classes, please? For example, why would a person use one as opposed to another? Maybe pros and cons of each? Thanks in advance! R Version 2.2.0 (I'm downloading the new one this afternoon!) Windows. Happy New Year! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and

I hope this question is sufficiently different from the other requests for book recommendations that it's not repetitious. If not, I apologize in advance. I'm curious what standard reference books working statisticians, or biostatisticians, have within easy reach of their desk. I'm a computer systems administrator, and have a two-foot bookshelf directory under my monitor that contains

Dear all, Is there an elegant way to add citations of packages when using Sweave? Ideally I'd like a function which creates a Bibtex-file with the packagenames as keys. The idea is to use \cite{packagename} or \cite{R} in LaTeX. I know you can get the Bibtex entry with toBibtex(citation("packagename")). But after updating R or a package one needs to update the bib-file too. When

In Henric's recent post, he included this output: @BOOK{R:Harrell:2001, AUTHOR = {Frank E. Harrell}, TITLE = {Regression Modeling Strategies, with Applications to Linear Models, Survival Analysis and Logistic Regression}, PUBLISHER = {Springer}, YEAR = 2001, NOTE = {ISBN 0-387-95232-2}, URL =

As a newbie to R, I need to learn my way around (no previous experience of S).What books, doc for R are recommended? I'm interested primarly in non linear regression and process modelling (and have downloaded the R documentation from the site). Thanks for all tips Anne

Hi, does anyone out there have a recommendation for multilevel / random effects and longitudinal analysis? My dream book would be something that's both accessible to a non-statistician but rigorous (because I seem to be slowly turning into a statistician) and ideally would use R. Peter

I would like to buy a basic statistics book (experimental design, sampling, ANOVA, regression, etc.) with examples in R. Or download it in PDF or html format. I went to the CRAN contributed documentation, but there were only R textbooks, that is, textbooks where R is the focus, not the statistics. And I would like to find the opposite. Other text I am trying to find is multivariate data

Sorry to ask this but does anyone knows a good text that helps with the basic programming side of R. I understand the statistics behind most of R but i have real difficulty with the data types and how R views them. As a part of that could you help me with another problem. I know how to read data in from a file in terms of read.table but how do i single a column out or even just download a

hi all i need some advice. i am a university lecturer and will be teaching a R programming course next year. the course will be taught to second year statistics students. the aim is to introduce them to programming. the emphasis will be on solving real life consulting projects by using R. i must still develop the course but if anyone has any suggestions on possible content and interesting data

Dear all, I have the following question. I have to fit the hierarchical model for the hypothesis concern the individual-level effects by controlling for the individual -level attributes and national-level contextual effects on individuals by using R. O have to obtain the estimates of the impact of the second-level (national: GDP per capita) effects on individuals ( in this instance the impact

I was unable to open this file Bill Venables' excellent "Exegeses on Linear Models" posted at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS3/Exegeses.ps.gz I'd be very interested in reading it? Thanks Esther Meenken Biometrician Crop & Food Research Private Bag 4704 Christchurch TEL: (03) 325 9639 FAX: (03) 325 2074 EMAIL:MeenkenE at crop.cri.nz Visit our website at

Hello all: Have any of you succeeded in getting hold of Peter Daglaard's book, "Introductory Statistics with R"? I have placed an order some weeks ago with AMAZON.CO.UK and it appears I must wait another 6 weeks before delivery. ANDREW -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read

Hi all, Please, while using image() which is the graphical parameter which control the space between ylab and the y axis? I do need to write a number of relatively long y labels and I am not able the control, if possible, this space. See the effect I need to avoid... http://nvx.environmentalchange.net/@rrodriguez/images/overlapping.jpg Thanks for your help, Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodr?guez Your

Dear Group, I am an economics student starting with PhD work in London. As preparation I would like to get to know R a little bit better. For Stata there are tons of books, however, can you recommend a book for R? I have some substantiated econometrics knowledge, so it should be more a how-to book. Best regards Thiemo --- Thiemo Fetzer, Economist http://freigeist.devmag.net

Dear list! I am interested in learning about MLE and I wonder whether it is possible to use the examples for maximum likelihood estimation given in 8.7 in MASSv3 with R? AFAIU R does not have a direct replacement for S-PLUS's ms() which the examples use for the fitting, but optim() may be of help for me. However, I am not sure how I can convert the use of ms() using optim()--is there an