[FORGED] Ask function missing in package car
wow. Cool. Many thanks, Ashim
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 9:08 PM, David L Carlson <dcarlson at tamu.edu> wrote:
Since R is open source, the source code for packages is stored on CRAN mirrors. A little navigation gets us to https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/car/ Loading car_1.2-16.tar.gz, the last version before car_2.0 gives the code for Ask(): # change an argument to a function interactively (J. Fox) Ask<-function(arg, fun, ...){ fun<-fun repeat{ value<-readline(paste("Enter",deparse(substitute(arg)),": ")) if (value == "") break() eval(parse(text=paste("fun(",deparse(substitute(arg)),"=",value,",...)"))) } } Running this code will create the function. ------------------------------------- David L Carlson Department of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77840-4352 -----Original Message----- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Ashim Kapoor Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 12:35 AM To: Fox, John Cc: R-help Subject: Re: [R] [FORGED] Ask function missing in package car Dear Sir, Thank you. Best Regards, Ashim On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Fox, John <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
Dear Ashim,
-----Original Message----- From: Ashim Kapoor [mailto:ashimkapoor at gmail.com] Sent: June 21, 2016 10:10 PM To: Fox, John <jfox at mcmaster.ca> Cc: Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com>; R-help <r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] [FORGED] Ask function missing in package car Dear Sir, Many thanks for your reply. May I ask,was it replaced by another
similar
function?
No.
It seems interesting enough to have a function like that.
I guess it didn't seem that useful to us. You can simply modify commands in a programming editor. Best, John
Best Regards,
Ashim
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Fox, John <jfox at mcmaster.ca
<mailto:jfox at mcmaster.ca> > wrote:
Dear Ashim and Marc,
Sorry to chime in late. As Marc suggests, the Ask() function went
the
way of the dodo before the second edition of the book (coauthored with
Sandy
Weisberg, and retitled "An R Companion to Applied Regression") was
published.
Best,
John
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John Fox, Professor
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4M4
Web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox <http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org <mailto:
r-help-
bounces at r-project.org> ] On Behalf Of Ashim
> Kapoor
> Sent: June 21, 2016 7:35 PM
> To: Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com
<mailto:marc_schwartz at me.com> >
> Cc: R-help <r-help at r-project.org <mailto:r-help at r-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [R] [FORGED] Ask function missing in package car
>
> Dear Mark,
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Best Regards,
> Ashim
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Marc Schwartz
<marc_schwartz at me.com <mailto:marc_schwartz at me.com> >
> wrote:
>
> > According to the NEWS file for the package:
> >
> > https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/car/NEWS
> >
> > the Ask() function was removed in car version 2.0-0, which
was
> > released on 2010-07-26. So it has been gone for about 6
years.
> >
> > The version of car that is used in the documentation that you
are
> > using is 1.2-16, which is from 2009-10-11.
> >
> > So the online documentation source is outdated.
> >
> > I see that the Ask() function is listed in the first edition
of John's
> > book, which I have on my shelf, but I don't have the second
edition
to
> > know if that had been updated. A review of the index for the
second
> > edition on Amazon.com would suggest that it was removed for
the
second
> edition.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Marc Schwartz
> >
> >
> > > On Jun 21, 2016, at 8:29 PM, Ashim Kapoor
<ashimkapoor at gmail.com <mailto:ashimkapoor at gmail.com> >
> wrote:
> > >
> > > I am reading the book An R and S plus companion to Applied
> > > Regression
> > and I
> > > found this function there.
> > >
> > > Googling gave me the link [1].
> > >
> > > 1.
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 6:57 AM, Rolf Turner
> > > <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz <mailto:r.turner at auckland.ac.nz>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> On 22/06/16 13:06, Ashim Kapoor wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Dear All,
> > >>>
> > >>> my details:-
> > >>>
> > >>>> sessionInfo()
> > >>>>
> > >>> R version 3.3.0 (2016-05-03)
> > >>> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) Running under:
Ubuntu
15.10
> > >>>
> > >>> locale:
> > >>> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_IN LC_NUMERIC=C
LC_TIME=en_IN
> > >>> [4] LC_COLLATE=en_IN LC_MONETARY=en_IN
LC_MESSAGES=en_IN
> > >>> [7] LC_PAPER=en_IN LC_NAME=C
LC_ADDRESS=C
> > >>> [10] LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=en_IN
> LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> > >>>
> > >>> attached base packages:
> > >>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets
methods base
> > >>>
> > >>> other attached packages:
> > >>> [1] car_2.1-2
> > >>>
> > >>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> > >>> [1] Rcpp_0.12.5 lattice_0.20-33 MASS_7.3-43
> > >>> grid_3.3.0
> > >>> [5] nlme_3.1-128 MatrixModels_0.4-1 SparseM_1.7
> > >>> minqa_1.2.4
> > >>> [9] nloptr_1.0.4 Matrix_1.2-6 splines_3.3.0
> > >>> lme4_1.1-12
> > >>> [13] pbkrtest_0.4-6 parallel_3.3.0 mgcv_1.8-7
> > >>> nnet_7.3-10
> > >>> [17] quantreg_5.24
> > >>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>> ## Not run:
> > >>>> attach(UN)
> > >>>>
> > >>>> # enter the power-transformation parameter # start with
1
Ask(p,
> > >>>> function(p) qq.plot(box.cox(gdp, p),
> > >>>>
> > >>> + ylab=paste("transformed gdp, power =",p)))
> > >>> Error: could not find function "Ask"
> > >>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>> What can I do to correct this?
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> What led you to believe that such a function exists (in
the
"car"
> > package
> > >> or anywhere else for that matter)? And what exactly do
you
want it
> > >> to
> > do
> > >> for you?
> > >>
> > >> cheers,
> > >>
> > >> Rolf Turner
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Technical Editor ANZJS
> > >> Department of Statistics
> > >> University of Auckland
> > >> Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276
> >
> >
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