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Hi R People: If you have a linear programming problem in which some of the constraints have the "<=", some have ">=" and some have "=", all in the same problem, should the solver work? I'm having trouble with that. Any help much appreciated! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.eud whoops! mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R People: Suppose I have the following; xa <- c("There are 5 dogs") I would like to have a new character vector such that xb[1] is There xb[2] is are xb[3] is 5 xb[4] is dogs Since the original vector has length 1, substring will not work. Any suggestions would be MOST welcome! thanks Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences

Dear R People: I downloaded the RPM for Red Hat Linux. How do I install this, please? When I looked at the R Intallation manual, it seemed to be referring to installing from source. Thanks in advance! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R People: When the D function is used for a symbolic derivative, an expression is returned, which is fine. How do you change that expression to a function, please? I've been experimenting with substitute and deparse, but no success yet. This is R 1.8.0 for Windows. thanks in advance for the help! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R People: I am trying to split a character vector into a set of individual letters: Ideal: x3 <- c("dog") "d" "o" "g" I tried the following: > strsplit(x3) Error in strsplit(x3) : argument "split" is missing, with no default > strsplit(x3,1) [[1]] [1] "dog" I know that this is incredibly simple, but what am I doing

Dear R People: Suppose I have the 4 numbers: 1,2,3,4. I would like to create a listing of the permutations of 4 items taken 4 at a time. Is there a built in function for that, please? Thanks in advance! R 2-3-1 for Windows or Linux Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R People: Is there any way to take a Windows version of R, compiled from source, compress it, and put it on a Unix-like environment, please? thanks in advance, Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R People: In the function "decompose", the object has the class of "decomposed.ts". (from package stats) I would like to see the class definition and the method for the plotting. However, when I use isClass("decomposed.ts") I get "FALSE". When I check getMethods("plot") there is no method for plot on decomposed.ts Any suggestions,

Dear R People: When creating a package, how do you include new methods and classes, please? I'm using the pacakge.skeleton command as a starting point. Thanks, Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R People: I have used the "latex" function from the Hmisc package and it is just great! However, I have a new question regarding that function: is there an option for summary(lm(y~x)), please? There are options for different types of objects, but I didn't see one for that. Maybe I just missed it. Thanks in advance! R for Windows Version 2.3.1 Sincerely, Erin Hodgess

Dear R People: Yet again, I am attempting to install R on RedHat Linux. Here is my sorry attempt to date: [hodgess at gator hodgess]$ rpm -vi R.rpm warning: R.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 97d3544e error: cannot write to %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES I only want to write it to my own userid, since I am the only one who uses it. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks,

Dear R People: Could someone direct me to some documentation on the difference between S3 and S4 classes, please? For example, why would a person use one as opposed to another? Maybe pros and cons of each? Thanks in advance! R Version 2.2.0 (I'm downloading the new one this afternoon!) Windows. Happy New Year! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and

Hi Ryszard! There is a dist function in R. It's in the mva package. You can set the kind of distance that you want. Thanks, Erin mailto:hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R People: I am having some trouble with the snow package. It requires MPICH2 and Rmpi. Rmpi is fine. However, I downloaded the MPICH2 package, and installed. There is no mpicc, mpirun, etc. Does anyone have any suggestions, please? Thanks in advance! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto:

Dear R People: When will version 1.9 (for Windows) be ready, please? My reason for asking: there is an interesting library from Bioconductor called tkWidgets. However, it will only work with version 1.9.0 or higher. Are there ways around this, or should I just be patient? Thanks so much in advance! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences

Dear R People: I want to use the "grep" command in UNIX/Linux to check some words from the dictionary. Let's say I use: grep dog /usr/share/dict/words and I get back bulldog dog dogged and so on. How could I just get back "dog" with the grep command please? Thanks, Sincerely Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University

Dear R People: This is more of an opinion question please: When putting together GUI type functions, is it better to use JAVA or Tcl/Tk, please? Any input is appreciated! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R People: Please excuse the off topic question. What are the dimensions of A-4 Paper, please? Actually, the question should read, "how do I set up a LaTex file to fix A-4 paper, please?" Thanks much! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R People: In S Plus, if you have a function which calls the plot function several times, you get several "pages" of graphics output. Is there an eqivalent in R, please? R version 2.2.1 windows Thanks in advance! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R People: On the Edit menu, there is a GUI preference tab. On the Font option, the highest value is 18. Has anyone ever had the font size set larger than that will any success, please? Thanks, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu PS Windows, R 2-2-1