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I don't know from the nortest package, but it should ***always*** be the case that you test hypotheses H_0: The data have a normal distribution. vs. H_a: The data do not have a normal distribution. So if you get a p-value < 0.05 you can say that ***there is evidence*** (at the 0.05 significance level) that the data are not from a normal distribution. If the nortest package does

I just tried to install R version 1.5.1, and it is failing ``make check'', as follows: $ make check `Makedeps' is up to date. running code in 'base-Ex.R' ...*** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `base-Ex.Rout' Current working directory /home1/faculty/rolf/Traal/Rtmp/R-1.5.1/tests/Examples *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target

I have just installed R version 2.14.0 and tried to re-build and re-check some of the packages that I maintain. I'm getting a warning (in the process of running R CMD check on my "deldir" package): > * checking PDF version of manual ... WARNING > LaTeX errors when creating PDF version. > This typically indicates Rd problems. > LaTeX errors found: > ! Font

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

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

Colin Bleay wrote: > last week i sent an e-mail about dealing with errors thrown up from a > glm.nb model carried out on multiple random datasets. > > every so often a dataset is created which results in the following error > after a call to glm.nb: > > "Error: NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call (arg 1) > In addition: Warning message: > Step size truncated due

Thanks to Rolph Turner and Jason Turner ... I guess I was too excited about getting back on the list after an absense of several years ... I'll be a little more thoughtful about the problem before posting next time, and a little less trigger-happy with the "Send" e-mail button. Never-the-less, much appreciated. - Mohamed -----Original Message----- From: Rolf Turner

In checking over the solutions to some homework that I had assigned I observed the fact that in R (version 2.4.0) pnorm(-1.46) gives 0.07214504. The tables in the text book that I am using for the course give the probability as 0.0722. Fascinated, I scanned through 5 or 6 other text books (amongst the dozens of freebies from publishers that lurk on my shelf) and found that some agree with R

Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote: > look at ?rowMeans; you can also use "apply(mat, 1, mean)" but > rowMeans() is better. By my reading of the question, this is not what Ezhil wants. He said: ``I have a 992 x 74 matrix. I would like to form a new matrix by averaging each 4 rows from the original one.'' I.e. he wants (I think) the first row of the new matrix to be the

I have just been bitten by a quirk in the behaviour of model.matrix. I used model.matrix inside a function, and passed to it a formula that was built elsewhere. The formula was of the form ``y ~ x + w + z''. Now, model.matrix cheerfully accepts formulae of this form, although it only ***needs*** the right hand side, i.e. ``~ x + w + z'' --- the ``y'' can be dropped (but

It seems that when I choose not to save the workspace, R then chooses not to update the command history saved in the file .Rhistory. I can see a rationale for this, but I find it annoying; I might well want to be able to get at previous commands, even if I don't want to keep the objects created by these commands. Is there anyway of changing this behaviour --- i.e. to get R to save the

Apologies for the off-topic question; as usual I'm trying to draw upon the unparalleled knowledge and sagacity of the r-help list. Please reply off-list if you can help me out. A collaborator of mine found a formula we need, on sheets which he had photocopied out of a book, some years ago. He cannot remember which book (he's getting to be as senile and forgetful as I am, poor bloke!).

I mis-spoke. It seems I had two collections of functions in the same directory. One by Colin Goodall, and one by David Scott (I have no record of where he is/was located). It is the *latter* collection that does all its work from within Fortran. I'll have another look at what Colin Goodall actually wrote to see if it could be useful to guarav. cheers, Rolf Turner rolf at

This may be an FAQ, but a (perfunctory) search failed to turn it up. Suppose I have a function foo(...){<something>} and I want to obtain, inside foo, the names of items comprising the ``...''. E.g. if I call foo(melvin,clyde,irving) I want to be able to loop through the ``...'' and successively obtain the text strings "melvin", "clyde", and

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

Our computing services people have recently reconfigured the Sun compilers structure on our network, and I can no longer install, on our Sun/Solaris machine, a certain package (spatstat) with which I am heavily involved. (The same problem may well pertain to other packages as well; I haven't yet experimented except with spatstat.) Strictly speaking I can ***install*** it, but when I try to

Suppose I have a data frame with two columns ``district'' and ``score'' --- score is numeric; district may be considered categorical. I wish to append to this data frame a third column whose entries are the ranks of ``score'' ***within*** district. I've tried fiddling about with tapply() and by() but the result is a list whose i-th component consists of the ranks of

My google search for Plackett's Algorithm didn't return too much except that Plackett's algorithm appears to be useful in Control Theory - it is elaborated as "Plackett's algorithm for on-line recursive least squares estimation". Sounds something like what I want. I am looking at developing a user modelling type app (new data points coming in and wanting to dynamically

On 17/01/16 11:03, Tom Callaway wrote: > Are you building from a source tarball or using the Fedora SRPM? I > strongly advise you to rebuild the SRPM, because the resulting binary > RPM will have all the necessary deps for building and installing. You > might need to change the spec up a bit, since I assume building on > Fedora means a modern system, and f17.... isn't modern.

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