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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

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

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.

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.

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

Dear List, I've tried to set default par() in .Rprofile by putting the following in the .First function: setHook(packageEvent("graphics", "onLoad"), function(...) {graphics::par(cex.axis=1.5, cex.lab=2, las=1)} ) My goal was to set par() defaults without opening a device everytime at startup. However, the next plot I create doesn't show these

Hi all, several packages print messages during loading. How do I avoid to see them when the packages are in the defaultPackages? Here is an example. With this in ~/.Rprofile ,----[ ~/.Rprofile ] | old <- getOption("defaultPackages") | options(defaultPackages = c(old, "filehash")) | rm(old) `---- I get as last line when starting R: ,---- | filehash: Simple key-value

Hi, Is there a way to incorporate an R object x to a file already containing R objects? It seems that 'save' is not capable to do this. If I save x to a file containing previously saved data, then I will lose this data. I use the funcion hsv in .Rprofile but it is recognized. Couriously, if I source .Rprofile when R is already running I do not get any error message. Thank you.

Hola! There is a nuisance that the number of directories with name starting Rtmp (and always empty) in my temp directory is increasing over time. I put the following in my .Rprofile: tmp0001 <- tempdir() setHook( packageEvent("base","onUnload"), function(...) unlink( tmp0001, recursive=TRUE) ) which solves part of the problem, but not all. So there are also

Hi folks, I note that in the general FAQ's we have 7.25 Why did my .Rprofile stop working when I updated R? Did you read the NEWS file? For functions that are not in the base package you need to specify the correct package namespace, since the code will be run before the packages are loaded. E.g., ps.options(horizontal = FALSE) help.start() needs to be

I'm using Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.2 (SP2) on an HP 2133 (x86) mini-notebook. (There apparently are a LOT of bugs in 10.1!) I downloaded R-base from the openSuse 10.2 repository and was (finally) able to install it (after installing blas and gcc-fortran). I can start an R session and do computations. When I try to do any graphics using x11, I get the message: unable to load shared

I have never worked with R before so I am sorry if this is a bad question but I've tried and tried ( all day ) and I can't figure this problem out. I have the code below and I included the data file as an attachment. The code works in term of reading in the data correctly but when the graph gets created, the xaxis is really strangely/incorrectly labelled. I have been trying to understand

The package I'm working on can extract data from external packages but would otherwise have no dependency on them. However, I desire to be able to dispatch based on an external S3 class if its package is attached (.First.lib). My code is S4-based and its package has NAMESPACE. Registering the external class prior to the other package being attached doesn't seem to work so I am attempting

Hello, I've looked in tools:::.install_packages for some sort of hook that would let packages developers point to further instructions after a package is installed. For example, some packages need to setup environment variables, ... Is there something I have missed ? Romain -- Romain Francois Independent R Consultant +33(0) 6 28 91 30 30 http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr |-

R-devel has new versions of the X11(), png() and jpeg() devices on Unix-alikes. The intention is that these are used identically to the previous versions (which remain available) but will produce higher-quality output with more features. Pros: Antialiasing of text and lines (can be turned off) but no blurring of fills. Buffering of the X11 display and fast repainting from a backing image.

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.)

Dear R experts, I just upgraded R from 1.8.1 to 1.9.0 version. My .First() function in ~/.Rprofile contains x11() and par() functions. .First <- function() { x11(display = "", 8.0, 5.0) par(las = 1, ...) ## ... } And, R claims now, on startup: [hello messages skiped ...] Error in .First() : couldn't find function "x11" > I commented

Dear all I noticed from NEWS 2.11.0,dev SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES o Packages must have been installed under R 2.10.0 or later, as the current help system is the only one now supported. So I tried to follow instructions in manual, Duncan Murdoch presentation and help pages to prepare and accomplish installation of a set of functions I use. However in R 2.11.0dev and too in

Good morning, we recently observed a problem with importing S3 generics from a foreign package (without namespace), defining a S3 method in a package _with_ namespace and the `cleanEx()' function which is automatically generated and executed before examples are run by R CMD check. To be more precise. Package `strucchange' defines a S3 generic sctest <- function(x, ...)

hello I am returning to some libraries that I had previously customised by amongst other things adding additional functions. I had simply typed these new functions into the file in library/R/thelibrary. These however do not seem to be loaded now as they previously were under older versions of R. What's changed and what do i need to do? Thanks Stephen