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This works: my.compose <- function(f, ...) { if (missing(f)) identity else function(x) f(my.compose(...)(x)) } my.compose(sin, cos, tan)(pi/4) ## [1] 0.5143953 sin(cos(tan(pi/4))) ## [1] 0.5143953 But replacing my.compose with Recall in the else causes it to fail: my.compose2 <- function(f, ...) { if (missing(f)) identity else function(x) f(Recall(...)(x))

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: Sorry for the off topic question, but here it goes: could someone recommend a good bash shell programming book, please? Thanks, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com

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: Is there a Quality Control in R book that would be accessible for undergraduates, please? I'm teaching a QC course in the fall semester and would be happy to have a Use R book or something like that, please. Thanks in advance, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: erinm.hodgess at

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 know that this is off topic, but could anyone recommend a good book on Linux scripting please? Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com

Dear R People: I'm sure that this is a very silly question, but I'm reading the Software for Data analysis book by John Chambers, and I can't find the "Declination" data that he refers to on page 15 in the book. I did all of the usual stuff: library(help=SoDA) ??Declination looked for it online but to no avail. Has anyone else run into this, please? Any help would be

Hi R People: I am looking at the Braun/Murdoch book, " A First Course in Statistical Programming in R", and I have a question about a function there. It's on page 52, Example 4.5; the sieve of Erastosthenes. There is a line: primes <- c() Is there a difference between using that and primes <- NULL please? When you put in primes <- c(), primes comes back as NULL. Is

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: 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: 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: 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: I was wondering if there were any packages for parallel programming in R. According to the R-help, at one time there was a package called SNOW. It doesn't seem to exist anymore. Any help would be much appreciated! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess mailto: hodgess@gator.uhd.edu [[alternative(swapped) HTML version deleted]]

Dear R Users: Was there an answer to the question about using dev.print and win.print to print as horizontal = FALSE, please? I was working on it and I didn't find the solution. R 1.9.1 Windows Thanks, Erin Hodgess mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

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: 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

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: There is a function from the fBasics library to get the probability and quantiles for the hyperbolic probability function. Is there one that will estimate parms of the hyperbolic probability function from a data set, please? Thanks in advance! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu R Version 2.0.1 windows