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Dear useRs, it's a new year and time for a new CRAN-version of the "fortunes" package. Version 1.3-7 is now online at http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=fortunes which contains the 250th fortune: R> fortune(250) As Obi-Wan Kenobi may have said in Star Wars: "Use the source, Luke!" -- Barry Rowlingson (answering a question on the documentation of some

Dear useRs, it's a new year and time for a new CRAN-version of the "fortunes" package. Version 1.3-7 is now online at http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=fortunes which contains the 250th fortune: R> fortune(250) As Obi-Wan Kenobi may have said in Star Wars: "Use the source, Luke!" -- Barry Rowlingson (answering a question on the documentation of some

Hello, This is about fortune package, but I think that might be related also to base R, so I am sending to package maintainer and R-devel list. I have the following in my .Rprofile to break monotony of code writing library(utils) library(fortunes) fortune() detach("package:fortunes") so I get a fortune every time I start R. It seems that this conflicts with R CMD INSTALL in latest

Hello all, I want box plots by group to display in order of increasing mean (or median) of each group but can't seem to figure it out and couldn't find anything on R-seek, either. My data looks like this: meas unit sid grade rsprti 1 2.24 1002 99999902 NA 0.8600000 2 3.04 1007 43589520 3 0.9400000 3 4.95 2002 39910470 5 1.5300000 4 2.24 2002 39986280 5

I was going through http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/papers/r_package_development_nov2014.pdf and found this on pg-3 > fortunes::fortune(92) ## ## If you don't go with R now, you will someday. ## -- David Kane (on whether to use R or S-PLUS) ## R-SIG-Finance (November 2004) However, when I tried it on my machine, I get rajulocal at hogwarts:~/work/r_programming$ R -q >

On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 04:06:02PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: +> In message <20050724135738.GM46538@darkness.comp.waw.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek writes: +> +> >We should probably test entropy quality on boot. +> >I've somewhere userland version of /sys/dev/rndtest/ which implements +> >FIPS140-2 tests for (P)RNGs. We can use put it into rc.d/ and warn users.

As of a moment ago (9 a.m., Monday, Jan. 8, 2001), the S Programming book by Venables and Ripley was once again selling for 17.98 American dollars at Amazon.com. Alas, I notice that "Mixed Effects Models in S and S-Plus" by Pinheiro and Bates now lists at Amazon for 97.25 American dollars, as opposed to about $70 a little while ago.

I have data on every grade in all elementary schools in Chicago over 5 years. I would like to estimate a trend over time for each grade in each school. There are 17,600 data all together (about 460 schools, nearly 8 grades each, over 5 years). Is there a not-so-hard way to do this in R (I was thinking of using rlm)? ______________________________________________________________________ Stuart

Hello! I have the following R code in my .Rprofile file - just for fun. library(fortunes) fortune() detach("package:fortunes") This works nicely in R 2.3.1, but it throws the following error under latest R-devel: ... ... Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. Type 'q()' to

Hello, this is just a point of curiosity with me. I want a sequence of numbers from 64 to 70, omitting the 2nd and 4th numbers. I can do it these ways: > seq(64, 70)[-c(2, 4)] [1] 64 66 68 69 70 > foo <- 64:70 > foo[-c(2, 4)] [1] 64 66 68 69 70 But how come this doesn't work? > 64:70[-c(2, 4)] [1] 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 Just wondering. -- Stuart Luppescu -=- slu .at.

Folks: I thought John Nash's comment below was profound and a possible Fortunes candidate: (Aside: I believe it applies to a great deal of what is discussed on this list, not just stochastic optimization.) Cheers, Bert ... (in the context of stochastic optimization) >... As with many tools in this domain, for effective use they > require more knowledge than many of their users

On 9/29/2017 3:37 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: > On 30/09/17 07:45, JLucke at ria.buffalo.edu wrote: > > <SNIP> > >> >> The conceptual paradigm for R is only marginally commensurate with >> that of >> standard statistical software. >> You must immerse yourself in R to become proficient. > > Fortune nomination. For newer list members wondering what

Hello all, I need to extract rows and columns from a data frame and put them in a matrix. In some cases, there are no rows in the data frame meeting the selection criteria. For those rows I want to put a row of 0's in the matrix. Here's my clumsy code: tab1.m1 <- matrix(0, nrow=2, ncol=4) tab1.m1[1,] <- ifelse(length(as.matrix(tab1[tab1$comp==the.comp & tab1$schlid==the.schl

I am writing course notes in LaTeX. In the part where I am describing model-fitting functions in R I want to use a ~ character inline. If I am displaying an example of R code in its own environment I use the alltt environment, which protects the ~ character. I have forgotten how to protect the ~ when I am writing something like The operator `~' is used to define a model formula in \R.

Hello, This one is very perplexing. I have teacher observation data, with factors teacher ID, observer ID, component, grade and subject. When I do this, aov(data=ratings.prin.22, rating ~ obsid.f + tid.f + subject.f + grade.f + comp.f) I get this: Terms: obsid.f tid.f grade.f comp.f Residuals Sum of Squares 306.23399 221.38173 1.70000 14.52831 279.05780 Deg. of

This might have been discussed before, but below is a "not-so-unlikely" use case where the user follows normal procedures, updates R to a major release version, and then R crashes: 1. Use runs R stable (e.g. v2.13.0). 2. User installs a package with a namespace, e.g. install.packages("fortunes"). 3. User uses the package and one of the package's objects are assigned to the

Hi, I noticed the following fortune in R 2.7 and 2.6.2: fortune('Spreads') If anything, there should be a Law: Thou Shalt Not Even Think Of Producing A Graph That Looks Like Anything From A Spreadsheet. -- Ted Harding (in a discussion about producing graphics) R-help (August 2008) Just wondering, what function and library gave this detailed prediction? Cheers

Hi, there is a quote in the fortunes package: To paraphrase provocatively, `machine learning is statistics minus any checking of models and assumptions'. -- Brian D. Ripley (about the difference between machine learning and statistics) useR! 2004, Vienna (May 2004) Was this statement made in a presentation? If so, would it be possible to get a reference for the presentation?

Dear Whom it may concern, I need help to figure the "macro" function in R: I need to plot the different data sets by a plotxyf function, I want the title to be different for different data set. # get the data set final.xyf<- xyf(data=as.matrix(my.final), Y=classvec2classmat(final$outcome), xweight = 0.5, grid=somgrid(5, 4, "hexagonal")) #plot function

My mind has become corrupted by having to use SAS too much. I wanted to calculate the difference of elements of two vectors if the signs are the same. I tried it the corrupted way first: if (effects1[,3] < 0 & effects0[,3] < 0) { imprv1 <- effects0[,3] - effects1[,3] } else if (effects1[,3] > 0 & effects0[,3] > 0) { imprv1 <- effects1[,3] - effects0[,3] } else {