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In a private response to Tony Plate's suggestion to replace version() output with sessionInfo() in R-help requests, > roger koenker wrote: >> Thanks for this, it would seem useful to have version numbers for >> the packages too? and Tony replied, > > Sounds sensible to me! If I were you I'd send a message to R-devel > suggesting this. AFAIK, some changes to

Hi, I need to read in some files. The file names contain come meta characters such as @, #, and white spaces etc, In read.csv, file= option, is there any way that one can make the function to recognize a file path with those characters? Thanks Johnny [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi All what is the command to give me the listing of the loaded packages. I mean which are active and not the listing of all the installed packages as given by library() thanks in advance -gaurav ============================================================================================ DISCLAIMER AND CONFIDENTIALITY CAUTION:\ \ This message and ...{{dropped}}

In the documentation the closed thing I see to an explanation of this is that ?detach says "Unloading some namespaces has undesirable side effects" Can anyone explain why unloading tseries will load zoo? I don't think this behavior is specific to tseries, it's just an example. I realize one would not usually unload something that is not loaded, but I would expect it to do

Tony Plate <tplate <at> acm.org> writes: > > Since the virtue and reliability of Wikis was brought up, I created a R > Wiki page for this at > http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/wiki/doku.php?id=beginners:surprises:emptysetfuncs > > > Anyone: please correct errors and improve it! > > Tony Plate > OK, now I have another question: I see a wiki at

Tony Plate <tplate <at> acm.org> writes: > > Since the virtue and reliability of Wikis was brought up, I created a R > Wiki page for this at > http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/wiki/doku.php?id=beginners:surprises:emptysetfuncs > > > Anyone: please correct errors and improve it! > > Tony Plate > OK, now I have another question: I see a wiki at

Running under Windows XP 64 bit, as.POSIXlt()/as.POSIXct() seem to think that US time zones (EST5EDT, MST7MDT) switched from daylight savings back to standard time on Oct 28, 2007, whereas the switch is actually on Sun Nov 04, 2007. Examples: > Sys.timezone() [1] "Mountain Daylight Time" > as.POSIXct("2007-10-30 12:38:47") [1] "2007-10-30 12:38:47 Mountain

Just for fun (and actually because I would use it too) I wrote a version of the "paste" menu command that assumes the clipboard contains a transcript, and just pastes the commands from it into the R console window (Windows GUI only). So, if something like this: > foo <- + 33 > foo * 3 [1] 99 > foo [1] 33 is on the clipboard, then the "paste commands" menu

Thank you for the reference to Knuth. Indeed in vol. 2 he has a > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Plate [mailto:tplate@blackmesacapital.com] > Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 8:05 AM > To: Vadim Ogranovich > Subject: Re: [Rd] algorithm reference for sample() > > Have you tried looking in Knuth's books on computer > algorithms? (They are classics for good

There are some interesting comments re Paul Murrell's new book, R, & SAS on Andrew Gelman's blog: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2005/04/a_new_book_on_r.html -- Tony Plate

Hello, very basic question from a user who is baffled by the workings of computers in general When logging off R, a dialog box asked if I wanted to save my log, I chose yes. Then I noticed that the following message appeared in the Command Window Error in saveLog(currentLogFileName) : unused argument(s) ("C:/Documents and Settings/prewpj/My Documents/Data/Analyses/Healthcare/Hand Care

The printing of the locale information from sessionInfo is not very tidy. Using toLatex(sessionInfo) pretty much guarantees "badness" from breaking the margin boundary (though my version of TeX no longer reports such errors). A random example is here: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Matrix/vignettes/Design-issues.pdf I find the locale information unnecessary and right now I hack

I was trying to create a function with a value computed at creation time, using substitute(), but I got results I don't understand: > this.is.R Error: Object "this.is.R" not found > substitute(this.is.R <- function() X, list(X=!is.null(options("CRAN")[[1]]))) this.is.R <- function() TRUE > # the above expression as printed is what I want for the

Here is a first draft of a guide for posters to r-help and r-devel. Suggestions on how to improve any aspect of it are most welcome. Suggestions on ways to make it more concise are especially welcome. Comments on which parts you like or don't like are welcome. Rather than clutter up R-help with lots of small corrections etc, please send them to me, and I will try to incorporate and

library() seems to remember the location of a package when I give it a lib.loc, and then use that version thereafter, even if I don't supply lib.loc again. Is there any way I can load different versions of a package in one R session? -- I don't seem to able to simply detach the package and then load a different version from a different library location. $ R [...startup info...] >

>>>>> akshay kulkarni >>>>> on Wed, 31 May 2023 20:55:33 +0000 writes: > dear members, > I am using arfima() from forecast package to model a time > series. The following is the code: >> LYGH[[202]] > [1] 45.40 3.25 6.50 2.15 >> arfima(LYGH[[202]]) > Error in .fdcov(x, fdf$d, h, nar = nar, nma = nma,

I'm trying to create a language structure that is a call to a function with a number of arguments that is only known at run time. I do this by using repeated indices to expand out a call with a single argument. However, when I change one of the arguments, all are changed. I don't see the same behavior when I initially create a call with multiple arguments. Even more strangely,

Hi, sessionInfo() has been proven really useful, but you still often have to ask for additional information in order to help troubleshooting. For instance, for troubleshooting the aroma.affymetrix, it is very helpful to know what the current working directory is, for other packages certain system environment variables might be useful and so on. One solution could be to provide support for hook

Hi All, I was wondering if there would be any interest in adding an option to the "save" function in R that I think would be useful. I was thinking that it might be useful to have an option that would generate a ".sessionInfo" variable that contains the output of "sessionInfo()", and adds it to the list of objects to be saved. This way, whenever an RData object is

I've placed a revision of the posting guide at http://pws.prserv.net/tap/posting-guide-draft2.html. (Posted there to make the HTML formatting easy to read.) I've tried to incorporate the suggestions people posted and mailed to me. Quite a few were of the form "too long, but you should add this..." :-) Brian Ripley, Jason Turner, Peter Dalgard, Patrick Burns, Frank Harrell,