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I think I did enough reading on my Own about startup ( part of the morning And most of this afternoon ) to not feel uncomfortable asking for confirmation of my understanding of this startup stuff. Obviously, the startup process is more complicated Than below but, for my R newbie purposes, It seems like I can think of the startup process as follows : Suppose my home directory =

Sometimes I print out a package and read about it and there are sometimes nice examples that I would like to run myself. Is there a way to bring them into R from the package or are they only meant to be typed in manually ? If manual is the only way, that's fine. I was just checking whether there was a quicker way. Thanks. Mark

Thanks a lot. setHook is Currently not in my knowledge set But it's great to save these Thing so I can look them up When I feel more comfortable. Just to add to that Stata versus R discussion : I believe, anyone who uses any other package than R, is probably missing out in the long run. It's truly unbelievable what has been done here. I feel like I fell asleep for 5 years ( by not using

I'm sorry to bother everyone with a stupid question but, when I am at an R prompt in Windows, is there a way to see what packages you already have installed from the R site so that you can just do library(name_of_package) and it will work. I've looked at help etc but I can't find a command like this. Maybe there isn't one which is fine.

Hi All : I am attempting tomove a large amount of code from Splus to R and I was hoping that there was an equivalent in R of the Splus functions timeSeq and timeDate ? I did an RSiteSearch but nothing came up ? If the equivalent functions are part of some package, that's fine. Thanks a lot. Mark

Does anyone know of a simple test in any R package that given a series of negative ones and positive ones ( no other values are possible in the series ) returns a test of whether the series is random or not. ( a test at each point would be good but I can use the apply function to implement that ) ? thanks.

Mark Leeds <mleeds at mlp.com> wrote (to S-News): > does anyone know the R equivalent of the SPlus rowVars function ? Andy Liaw <andy_liaw at merck.com> replied: > More seriously, I seem to recall David Brahms at one time had created an R > package with these dimensional summary statistics, using C code. (And I > pointed him to the `two-pass' algorithm for variance.)

I thought r-help let you attach asci files but I don't think it does now so below is a sample of my data set. Thanks again. 09:40:08.5238,67.00,33 09:40:09.1968,67.00,2 09:40:09.7945,67.00,2 09:40:09.7975,67.00,2 09:40:09.8318,66.99,-3 09:40:17.6335,66.95,3 09:41:09.3393,66.95,6 09:41:11.1482,66.95,-1 09:42:07.4552,66.90,-5 09:42:12.5823,66.85,-5 09:42:14.4329,66.80,-2

hi, is there a way to make r open the help file in a separate window? i'm quite new to linux(kubuntu) and used to work with r under windows... thanks, katharina

I have help files in several formats. Up until now I have converted nroff files to S-Plus 6 sgml and html files using Splus doc_to_S ... (creates .sgml file) Splus HINSTALL ... (creates .sgm and .html files) I maintain master help files in R .Rd files, and for some of my functions converting from .Rd to .sgm using R CMD Rdconv --type=Ssgm ... produces better .sgm files than beginning with

When I call C function from Splus, I often meet this problem: "Problem: Couldn't find a function definition for "Stest" " My c function is saved as 'test.c' (the function is also named as 'test' My splus function is saved as 'Stest', such as Stest <- function(d,f) { .C("test", as.integer(d), as.single(f)) } Assume my files (test.c

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, hiermit m?chte ich bei Ihnen nachfragen, ob die f?r Splus geschriebene "haplo.score"- Funktion auch unter R verwendet werden kann. siehe http://www.mayo.edu/statgen/software/ Wenn ja, wie sind die Aufrufe Splus CHAPTER -m und Splus make in R zu realisieren? Herzlichen Dank f?r Ihre M?he mit freundlichen Gr??en -- Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Fr?hlich

[RFC = Request for Comments] { Yes, the documentation for .Renviron is really not there (but the FAQ...); the rest is in ?Startup } In R's Startup (on Unix only??) {unless --no-environ is specified} ~/.Renviron (if there) is read as an 'sh' script before R is called, then R looks ((for the site-wide Rprofile and then)) for .Rprofile in the current directory and then for

Hi, I am interested in customizing the installation of R. I have gone through the ?R Installation and Administration? manual. But some of the stuff is not clear to me and I would like to get clarifications on the following points (for a Windows installation with R_HOME=C:\\R\\R-2.9.1 ) : 1. I understand that I need to create a file, .Renviron with the following path : R_HOME\\etc\\.Renviron where

Folks, Normally, in a data frame, one observation counts as one observation of the distribution. Thus one can easily produce a CDF and (in Splus atleast) use cdf.compare to compare the CDF (BTW: what is the R equivalent of the SPlus cdf.compare() function, if any?) However, if each point should not count equally, how can I weight the points before comparing the distributions? I was thinking of

Dear all Currently, I'm implementing the generalized hyperbolic distribution into Splus. Unfortunately the Bessel function is not implemented in Splus. In R the Bessel function does exist but it is an internal function and I'm not able to look at the code. Is there any possibility to see the code of the Bessel function in R or does anybody has an implementation of the Bessel function in

I am having difficulty coming to grips with Appendix B.2 of the otherwise very useful "An Introduction to R" and the related help file for Startup. I am running RGui 1.6.0 on a Windows 2000 machine from the default installation. How the concepts discussed in B.2 and the Startup help file relate to what I see on my machine is something of a mystery. I quote from the Startup file:

Thanks to Peter Dalgaard , I have made some decent progress as far as getting R to work in linux . I just want to set my environment variable R_LIBS to /u/etlfs/dev/users/leedsmar/R/library ( in linux ) so that I can install specific packages. Does anyone know the syntax and in which file I set this variable ( .Rprofile etc ). I've looked in the installation manual ( i'm mainly on pg 14

How can I access a function created in one data directory in another? I have been sourcing the text file that contains the function each time I go to another data dir. This is cumbersome, and I suspect there is a way to make functions global. Thanks in advance, S. David White Dept of Speech and Hearing Science Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio

Regarding user's home and working directories, is Rprofile just an old name of Renviron? or (can) should we have both files with different type of definitions? (talking about R.1.4.0 in linux). Thanks Agus Dr. Agustin Lobo Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC) Lluis Sole Sabaris s/n 08028 Barcelona SPAIN tel 34 93409 5410 fax 34 93411 0012 alobo at ija.csic.es