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Dear R Gurus: Is there a problem with Rmpi on x86 with SUSE 10.1, please? I've tried everything and it still won't load. Has anyone else dealt with this please? Thanks, Edna Bell

Dear R Gurus: I read somewhere that functions are considered vectors. Is this true, please? thanks Edna Bell

Hi R Gurus! This is definitely off topic, but I thought I'd try: what is the way to put in url's into a Latex file, please? I know that you start with a \newcommand statement, with some kind of argument that will change, but I'm not sure how to set it up, please. thanks, Edna Bell

Hi R Gurus! I have a package that I am putting together. I waited until the end to do the documentation and would like to generate a set of "empty" .Rd files. Is there a quick way to do this, please? Thanks, Edna Bell PS I can't seem to access the "Writing R Extensions" manual from 2.6.1 on Windows.

Dear R gurus I would like to take a monthly time series and convert it to a data frame without losing the tsp items, pleae I've tried as.data.frame and data.frame but I get the series without the time element. Any suggestions, please? tia Edna Bell

Hi! Suppose I have a factor: > fac1 <- factor(rep(c("dog","cat","tree"),c(2,3,4))) > fac1 [1] dog dog cat cat cat tree tree tree tree Levels: cat dog tree > length(fac1) [1] 9 Now I want to get rid of the dogs: > fac1 <- fac1[3:9] > fac1 [1] cat cat cat tree tree tree tree Levels: cat dog tree > How should I remove the dog from the

Dear R Gurus: Is there a test for a single variance available in R, please? Thanks, Edna Bell

Dear R Gurus: I'm working slowly through "R Programming for Bioinformatics", which is really interesting! Anyway, my question now is: what determines if a function is a builtin vs. a closure, please? For instance: > typeof(sqrt) [1] "builtin" > typeof(mean) [1] "closure" > Thanks, Edna Bell

Hi R Gurus! I have 2 questions, please: a. I'm putting together a little baby package on SUSE Linux 10.1. I want to create a zip of the package for windows. How should I create that please? b. I don't know if the following is possible but here it is: I have R and a bunch of libraries set up very nicely. I would like to hand off this setup to someone else. Should I just copy

Dear R Gurus: I'm trying to find R on another Linux system. I'm using the find command, (surprise), but I only want to see the output where it exists, not all of the other stuff. Is there an option that I could select, please? Right now I have find / -name R TIA, Sincerely, Edna

Hi again! Suppose I have the following: > xy <- round(rexp(20),1) > xy [1] 0.1 3.4 1.6 0.4 1.0 1.4 0.2 0.3 1.6 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.1 1.0 2.0 0.9 2.5 0.1 1.5 0.4 > table(xy) xy 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.9 1 1.4 1.5 1.6 2 2.5 3.4 1 4 2 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 > Is there a way to set things up to have 0 - 0.4 0.5 - 0.9 etc. please? I know there is the cut

Hi! What is the difference between using data(somedataset) vs. attach(somedataset), please? thanks, Edna Bell

I have put together a test class and methods > setClass("foo",representation(x="numeric")) [1] "foo" > setMethod("plot","foo",function(x,y,...)boxplot(x,...)) [1] "plot" > x <- rnorm(100) > class(x) <- "foo" > plot(x) > y <- new("foo",x=rnorm(50)) > class(y) [1] "foo" My

Dear R Gurus: How do I find the functions which are primitives, please? Thanks, Edna Bell

Hi R Gurus: Here is some code that I was experimenting with, please: > f1 <- function(x) { + e1 <- new.env(parent=.GlobalEnv) + environment(e1) + print(environment()) + return(mean(x)) + } > f1(1:15) <environment: 0x02525444> [1] 8 > My question: why isn't the environment within the function set to e1, please? Thanks, Edna Bell

Hi still yet again! I have the following code: > try(log(rnorm(25)),silent=TRUE) [1] -0.26396185 NaN NaN -0.13078069 -2.44997193 -2.15603971 NaN 0.94917495 0.07244544 NaN [11] -1.06341127 -0.42293099 -0.53769569 0.95134763 0.93403340 NaN -0.10502078 NaN 0.30283262 NaN [21] -0.11696872 -3.84122332 NaN NaN -0.12808690

Hi R Gurus! I'm trying to create a test package using the package.skeleton function. I wanted to add some compiled code too. In the src library, I put together a baby subroutine, compiled it and created a test.dll When I use the R cmd build, it works fine. But I get into trouble with the R CMD check section. /home/Desktop/R-2.5.1/bin # ./R CMD check mypkg * checking for working latex ...

Hi again. I'm sure that this is really simple. I'm trying to build a package on a Windows Vista machine. I use Rcmd build --binary test but I get the "Please set TMPDIR to a valid temporary directory" I tried TMPDIR=c:\temp but to no avail. Please help. thanks

Hi, I want to save a array (say, array[6,7,8]) write a cvs file. How can I do that??? can I write in one file? if I could not write in one file, i want to use a loop to save in different files (in the matrix[6,7,8], should be 8 csv files), such as the filename structure should be: file ="filename" +str(i) +"." +"csv" Many thanks. Dong [[alternative HTML version

Hi there, I'm rying to 'turn' an Schunk in an .Rnw file(Xemacs-21.4.13, ESS-5.2.8, R-2.1, miktex-2.4.1705). Has anyone got the isorot package to work with Sweave? JC example test.Rnw: \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage{Sweave} \usepackage{isorot} \rotdriver{dvips} \clockwise \title{Sweave Example 1} \author{apologies to Friedrich Leisch } \begin{document} \maketitle