similar to: [OT] factorial design

Dear R Gurus: How do you put together a 2^2 (or even 2^k) factorial problem, please? Since you have 2 levels for A and B, do you put in "A+" and "A-" as factors, please? Thanks, Edna Bell

I was unable to open this file Bill Venables' excellent "Exegeses on Linear Models" posted at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS3/Exegeses.ps.gz I'd be very interested in reading it? Thanks Esther Meenken Biometrician Crop & Food Research Private Bag 4704 Christchurch TEL: (03) 325 9639 FAX: (03) 325 2074 EMAIL:MeenkenE at crop.cri.nz Visit our website at

Hello. Please excuse this off-topic request, but I know that the question has been debated in summary form on this list a number of times. I would find a paper that lays out the advantages and disadvantages of using different types of SS in the context of unbalanced data in ANOVA, regression and ANCOVA, especially including the use of different types of contrasts and the meaning of the

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

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

Hello, I have a problem with selecting the right type of sums of squares for an ANCOVA for my specific experimental data and hypotheses. I do have a basic understanding of the differences between Type-I, II, and III SSs, have read about the principle of marginality, and read Venable's "Exegeses on Linear Models" (http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS3/Exegeses.pdf). I am pretty new to

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

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 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

Hello R Gurus: I would like to take a character string and split at the $ sign. I thought that strsplit would do it, but here are the results: > vv [1] "whine$ts1" > vv [1] "whine$ts1" > strsplit(vv,"$") [[1]] [1] "whine$ts1" Does anyone have any suggestions, 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

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

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 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

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

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

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