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The documentation says, "pmax and pmin take several vectors as arguments and return a single vector giving the parallel maxima (or minima) of the vectors." I discovered that, if you use a matrix or array instead of a vector, pmax returns a matrix or array, respectively. This makes pmax and pmin much more useful, and should not be left to people to discover on their own! For example:

Hi there. R v1.3.0, Slackware linux 7.1 or Windows 98SE, PII 266, 64Mb RAM. I notice that under windows, R puts help info (ie. the response to '?<function>') into a new window, whereas under linux, it puts it into the main console window. I find the former much more helpful when checking a function's syntax. Is there a simple way of configuring R under linux to put its help

In a recent post, I reported that help.start worked with Mozilla, although it had not worked before. I now have discovered the difference. I'm using RH Linux 7.1 and Mozilla 0.9.5 and R 1.3.1. When I tried it before, I had use ESS to start R. If I run R without ESS, help.start() will start the browser (Mozilla), but help(apply), for example, will produce help in ESS but not in the browser.

I decided to try out Xemacs instead of Emacs in Linux (RH 7.2). After doing lots of configuration of Xemacs, I finally discovered a major problem. With Emacs, when I use R, I start Emacs twice (at least), in different viewports, once as emacs -f R and once as emacs myfile.R Then I try commands in the first one, and, when they work (which isn't very often), I cut the command with C-w,

I did some serach around. It seems that ROC curve computation is not supported on R. Anyone has some leads? Thanks. Jason ===== Jason G. Liao, Ph.D. Division of Biometrics UMDNJ School of Public Health 335 George Street, Suite 2200 New Brunswick, NJ 08903-2688 phone (732) 235-9748, fax (732) 235-9777 http://www.geocities.com/jg_liao __________________________________________________ Great

The Goodman/Kruskal gamma is a nice descriptive rank-order correlation statistic, often used in psychology. It is nice because it is easy to understand. It takes all pairs of values of each variable and asks whether they are congruent (S+ is the number in the same order for both variables) or discordant (S-, opposite ranking). The statistic is (S+ - S-)/(S+ + S-). It is like tau except for the

hi, I have a matrix (representing original data) that looks e.g. like this (consider it beeing x,y,z coords): 441 447 0 265 407 0 374 223 0 288 574 0 669 309 0 591 195 0 595 475 0 424 351 0 I get a second matrix (subject data) that is similiar to the above matrix but it is scaled, translated and rotated (and of course a little inprecise). Also I have an

I'm trying to understand better the differences between fixed and random effects by running very simple examples in the nlme package. My first attempt was to try doing a t-test in lme. This is very similar to the Rail example that comes with nlme, but it has two groups instead of five. So I try a1 <- 1:10 a2 <- 7:16 t.test(a2,a1) getting t(18)=4.43, p=.0003224. Then I try to do it

Hi, All. I'd have a set of data in an array: process <- c( 5 , 7 , 4 , 1 , 4 , 1 , 4 , 1 , 4 , 4 , 1 , 5 , 4 , ...) and I'd like to know the number of transitions in this data. I calculate transitions as the number of times a number follows another number. thus, something like this would be a 1 deep transition: 1 --> 1 : 10% (and actual number of 1 --> 1 occurrences) 1

I want to write a function to take an argument as the response variable of a linear model, e.g. to do anova's across a list of variables, something like the following (except, of course, this doesn't work): function(x) { anova(lm(x ~ my.factor,data=my.data)) } The x in lm() above is getting evaluated at the wrong level. How can I make this work? -- Russell Senior ``The two

> Ok...So I actually *typed* the table with WordPad, using the Tab button >in order to separate the columns, and saved it in rich text format. As you >might have guessed, it didn´t work. I got a: > Error in count.fields(file, sep, quote, skip, blank.lines.skip) : > string terminated by newline or EOF RTF is not what is meant by text. What I am writing is text. Your

This isn't really a bug so much as an undocumented feature, but perhaps the help file should be changed. If you say match(x,y) you get the values of the _first_ instance in y that matches each value of x. If you say x %in% y you get "TRUE" for every match, not just the first. This is useful, now that I know it, but perhaps the thing about the first instance should be documented.

As a user of only R, I don't use much of the potential of ESS and Emacs. Without entering a religious feud, is there any reason I should use XEmacs rather than my current GNU Emacs? (I looked on the XEmacs site, but I didn't understand the programming issues they were talking about (over my head).) Martin Henry H. Stevens, Assistant Professor 338 Pearson Hall Botany Department Miami

To maintain my R site, I'm trying to install html help files only, but also keep track of the version (with DESCRIPTION). I have the following bash script, which works except for 00Index.html. That is not a huge problem because the help files are still searchable, but I'd like to fix it. A long time ago I asked the same question, and Brian Ripley said to use --index as an option to

Hello, All: Jonathan Baron is "giving up" maintaining the RSiteSearch database. This breaks three things: (1) The R Site Search web service that Baron has maintained. (2) The RSiteSearch function in the utils package. (3) The sos package, for which I'm the maintainer and lead author. Might someone else be willing to take these over? For me,

Don't do anything yet. I may have found the problem by accident. I tried to use the computer from something else, and it was being drastically slowed down by some leftover processes, which turned out to be xlhtml. That is something that converts Excel files. Apparently, some excel files got into the libraries, and they were causing the indexing to hang completely. I am now running everything

Does anyone know how to read a SYSTAT .syd file on Linux? (Splus 6 does it, but it is easier to find a Windows box with Systat than to download their demo. I'm wondering if there is a better way than either of these options.) Jon -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron R search page:

My search site, http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu, has had several problems recently, all my fault, for which I apologize. But it now seems to be running reliably, on a new computer that is much faster than the old one. It uses htdig to permit search of the Rhelp mailing list, R documents, R functions, and various combinations of these. Search has several options, including Boolean search (with AND,

Hi, Can anyone explain me the differences in Q and R mode in Principal Component Analysis, as performed by prcomp and princom respectively. Regards L?vio Cipriano

Hi, RWeb web site is down past couple days, I am insterested in this project and want to try it for my projects. Deos anyone have this installation and user guide? Thanks! Best Regards, WeiQiang Li