similar to: R-update - what about packages and ESS?

Dear listers, I just run R CMD check on an update of one of my packages. All seems fine but after having gone through all the Rd-file and example checking and so on, I get the following kind of errors: LaTeX errors when creating PDF version. This typically indicates Rd problems. LaTeX errors found: ! Font T1/ptm/m/n/10=ptmr8t at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found . <to be read

Hi list, is there any direct way to obtain confidence intervals for the regression slope from lm, predict.lm or the like? (If not, is there any reason? This is also missing in some other statistics softwares, and I thought this would be quite a standard application.) I know that it's easy to implement but it's for explanation to people who faint if they have to do their own programming...

Hi there, is there any R-function for k-nearest neighbour agglomerative hierarchical clustering? By this I mean standard agglomerative hierarchical clustering as in hclust or agnes, but with the k-nearest neighbour distance between clusters used on the higher levels where there are at least k>1 distances between two clusters (single linkage is 1-nearest neighbour clustering)? Best regards,

Dear list, R CMD check on my updated package now generated the following error: "LaTeX errors when creating DVI version. This typically indicates Rd problems." But the Rd files (and everything else) were checked as "OK" (I removed the problem about which I asked the list some hours ago, but answers are still appreciated because I rather created a rough workaround than

Hi there, I just tried to install the package prabclus on a computer running Ubuntu Linux 9.04 using install.packages from within R. This gave me a message: Warning message: In install.packages("prabclus") : package ?prabclus? is not available I tried to do this selecting two different CRAN mirrors (same result) and with other packages (installing them works fine). Looking up the

Dear list, I came across the following error for three of my newly written Rd-files: non-ASCII input and no declared encoding I can't make sense of this. Below I copied in one of the three files. Can anybody please tell me what's wrong with it? Thank you, Christian \name{tetragonula} \alias{tetragonula} \alias{tetragonula.coord} \docType{data} % \non_function{} \title{Microsatellite

Dear list, I want to update my prabclus package which I haven't done for quite a while. In the previous version, I had .dat files in my data subdirectory, which I read using .R files. Now R CMD check gives me a warning that .dat files are no longer accepted there. So I changed my filenames to .txt, but actually some of these files are only there in order to be read by .R, not in order

Hi there, are there any R-packages for computations required in sampling theury (such as confidence intervals under random, stratified, cluster sampling; I'd be partoculary interested in confidence intervals for the population variance, which is difficult enough to find even in books)? Thanks, Christian *** --- *** Christian Hennig University College London, Department of Statistical

Hi list, I'm updating my fpc package at the moment and will add some new functions. I learned that there should be print and summary methods for the key functions. The purpose of the summary methods seems to be to reduce the possibly incredibly complex information in the function's output and the print method (print.summary.foo) should print an overview of the result. But in some

Dear list, order(x,y,z) returns a permutation to order x, ties broken by y, remaining ties broken by z. (And so on.) What I'd like to do is order(X), where X is a matrix (or a list or data frame if necessary) of unspecified size, which orders X[,1], ties broken by X[,2], remaining ties broken by X[,3] and so on - without having to know and to write down how many columns X has. Any

Hi there, any explanation for this? > intToUtf8(66) Error in intToUtf8(66) : argument 'x' must be an integer vector > intToUtf8(c(66,55)) Error in intToUtf8(c(66, 55)) : argument 'x' must be an integer vector > intToUtf8(c(66,55),multiple=TRUE) Error in intToUtf8(c(66, 55)) : argument 'x' must be an integer vector Errr... 66 and c(66,55) are as integer vectorish

Dear list, I did simulations in which I generated 10000 independent Bernoulli(0.5)-sequences of length 100. I estimated p for each sequence and I also estimated the conditional probability that a one is followed by another one (which should be p as well). However, the second probability is significantly smaller than 0.5 (namely about 0.494, see below) and of course smaller than the direct

Dear list, I'm writing Rd files and I'd like to have a list inside the description of an argument: (...) \arguments{ (...) \item{bootmethod}{vector of strings, defining the methods used for resampling. Possible methods: \itemize{ \item{"boot"} {Nonparametric bootstrap (precise behaviour is controlled by parameters \code{bscompare} and

Dear list, I just tried to use the function cluster.stat in the package fpc. I just have a couple of questions about the syntax: cluster.stats(d,clustering,alt.clustering=NULL, silhouette=TRUE,G2=FALSE,G3=FALSE) 1) the distance object (d) is an object obtained by the function dist() on my own original matrix? 2) clustering is the clusters vector as result of one of the many clustering methods?

Hi there, two questions. 1) Is there any possibility to look up the help pages within R for more complex combinations of character strings, for example "Bayesian" AND "regression" but not necessarily "Bayesian regression"? 2) Is there a package/command that does fully Bayesian linear regression (if possible with variable selection)? Thanks, Christian *** --- ***

Dear list, I'd like to test the null hypothesis of independence in a 2*2 contingency table in a Bayesian way. As far as I can see, this can be done by the function ctable in library LearnBayes. (More precisely, a Bayes factor can be computed.) Two questions: 1) Is there any other package/function than can be used for this in a more or less straightforward manner? 2) The ctable help page

Dear R-help list, apparently lda from the MASS package can be used in situations with collinear variables. It only produces a warning then but at least it defines a classification rule and produces results. However, I can't find on the help page how exactly it does this. I have a suspicion (it may look at the hyperplane containing the class means, using some kind of default/trivial

Dear R-help list, two issues regarding lda. 1) I'm puzzled by the fact that lda's in-build cross-validation gives results different from the manual cross-validation routine that I run (of course mine may be wrong, but I don't think so). See here: library(MASS) set.seed(12345) n <- 50 p <- 10 # or p<- 200 testdata <- matrix(ncol=p,nrow=n) for (i in 1:p) testdata[,i]

Dear list, I try to update the prabclus package. R CMD check works nicely, no warnings, good results in all tests. However, building the package fails: ginkgo:/disk5/home/chrish/RAusw/libsrc R CMD build prabclus * checking for file 'prabclus/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * preparing 'prabclus': * checking whether 'INDEX' is up-to-date ... OK * removing junk files * building

Hi everybody, I'd like to know if there's an easy way for extracting outliers record from a dataset, in order to perform further analysis on them. Thanks Alessandro