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I am pleased to announce a major revision of the document "Statistical Tables and Plots using S and LaTeX". It is available at http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/doc/summary.pdf (76 pages, 500K). It should be of interest to those who produce statistical reports or those who use or would be interested in using LaTeX, the greatest productivity tool for document processing in my

I am pleased to announce a major revision of the document "Statistical Tables and Plots using S and LaTeX". It is available at http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/doc/summary.pdf (76 pages, 500K). It should be of interest to those who produce statistical reports or those who use or would be interested in using LaTeX, the greatest productivity tool for document processing in my

The Hmisc and Design libraries have been updated respectively to versions 1.4-2 and 1.1-1. New versions for Linux/Unix/Windows may be obtained from http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/library/r . Web sites for the libraries are http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/Hmisc.html and http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/Design.html . Thanks to Xiao Gang Fan for porting the libraries

The Hmisc and Design libraries have been updated respectively to versions 1.4-2 and 1.1-1. New versions for Linux/Unix/Windows may be obtained from http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/library/r . Web sites for the libraries are http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/Hmisc.html and http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/Design.html . Thanks to Xiao Gang Fan for porting the libraries

Many of you are using Sweave for making statistical reports. I thought it might be helpful to some to see an example of the setup I use (in Linux). For those of you who have not yet discovered the power and productivity gains from using Fritz Leisch's wonderful package, I encourage you to give Sweave a try. %File: model.nw %Usage: % Put library(Hmisc;Design;tools} in .First % Sweave model

Great news! Having spent a significant amount of time porting/mantaining some packages on S4/Splus 5.x and R, I'm interested in your experience as you port Hmisc and Design; I'd like to know of your progress in order to help improve available R/Splus portability tools both at the C and the S language code. These tools include the package SLanguage written by John Chambers, and

In S-Plus the ... argument for tapply is before simplify. In R (1.2.3) ... is after simplify, causing the user to have to specify simplify every time ... is used even though the default is usually OK. Unless there was a benefit to reordering the arguments, it might be a good idea to reconsider the current function definition. ... is probably used more than simplify (e.g., tapply(rainfall,

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:56:07 +0200 Patrick Hausmann <p.hausmann at mr-regionalberatung.de> wrote: > Dear Frank, > > I can reproduce the problem from Philippe Glaziou (see attachment). > Maybe this can help. > Best, > Patrick > > Am Wollelager 11 > 27749 Delmenhorst > Tel. 04221 96373-0 > Fax 04221 96373-29 > > http://www.mr-regionalberatung.de >

In platform i686-pc-linux-gnu arch i686 os linux-gnu system i686, linux-gnu status major 1 minor 7.1 year 2003 month 06 day 16 language R I get > sort(c(3,1,NA)) [1] 1 3 Shouldn't NAs be retained by default? Thanks -Frank ---

I am trying to replicate part of the function of the S-Plus terms.inner function. I don't need an entire model terms object but R expressions or character strings containing the innermost variable name given a vector of character strings or expressions. Here are some example inputs that each should result in the string or expression "x": x; x^2; g(x); h(g(x)); h(g(x^3));

Dear R Developers, I should have had the Design library running in R by now but have kept putting off changing some calls to LINPACK routines to use those builtin to R. Specifically I call dqrsl1 and dqr. Would it be an easy task to put those in the next release of R? If not I'll finally bite the bullet and get back into reading LINPACK documentation (which I have but haven't examined

I am using read.spss in the foreign package to read an SPSS save file. For date variables I get huge values such as 11489990400. Does anyone know how to convert these values to R POSIXct date objects? Thanks in advance -Frank platform i686-pc-linux-gnu arch i686 os linux-gnu system i686, linux-gnu status major 1 minor

Using R CMD INSTALL packagename.tar.gz on platform i686-pc-linux-gnu arch i686 os linux-gnu system i686, linux-gnu status major 1 minor 6.1 year 2002 month 11 day 01 language R I used to get html and latex files recreated only when the source .Rd file changed. Now I am getting html and latex (and text and example) recreated whenever I run R CMD INSTALL when I do

Using R CMD INSTALL packagename.tar.gz on platform i686-pc-linux-gnu arch i686 os linux-gnu system i686, linux-gnu status major 1 minor 6.1 year 2002 month 11 day 01 language R I used to get html and latex files recreated only when the source .Rd file changed. Now I am getting html and latex (and text and example) recreated whenever I run R CMD INSTALL when I do

Thanks to Deepayan Sarkar (lattice) and Paul Murrell (grid) I have nearly finished porting the Hmisc library's xYplot function to R. xYplot extends xyplot to allow for error bars, bands, and a few other features. In S-Plus I extended the Trellis function xyplot mainly by writing panel.xYplot. In R, xyplot contains a lot of code, so I implemented xYplot by calling xyplot from it. Things are

I have many functions for high-level plotting that early on in their code do something like strwidth('string', units='inches') before plotting. I do this before plot() to set the correct margins with par(mai=...), to leave room for wide text on the left or right margins. If the plotting device is not opened strwidth( ) causes an error that plot.new() needs to be called. I can

Under platform i686-pc-linux-gnu arch i686 os linux-gnu system i686, linux-gnu status major 1 minor 6.1 year 2002 month 11 day 01 language R and using foreign 0.5-8 I am encountering errors when using read.xport. Here's

The Hmisc and Design libraries have had major improvements. New versions for Linux/Unix/Windows may be obtained from http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/library/r Thanks to Xiao Gang Fan for porting the libraries to Windows once again. Change logs may be obtained from http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/library/common Several bugs have been fixed in Design, and many bugs have been

New versions of the Hmisc and Design packages, including ones for Windows, may be found at http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/library/r Thanks as always to Xiao Gang Fan <xiao.gang.fan1 at libertysurf.fr> for providing the Windows ports. In Hmisc, new features for multiple imputation have been added to aregImpute and LaTeX and plot methods have been improved for summary.formula

Several people have posted very good thoughts on the issue of making R more "student friendly." My personal summary of these and what's needed, perhaps not just for students, is as follows. Emacs/Xemacs with ESS does part of this but non-everyday users need a simpler editor. No point and click analyses- these instill bad practices and are not replicable. Even for drawing