[FORGED] Ask function missing in package car

-----Original Message-----
From: R-help [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>
Cc: R-help <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>
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So the online documentation source is outdated.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>

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. http://svitsrv25.epfl.ch/R-doc/library/car/html/Ask.html

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 6:57 AM, Rolf Turner
<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

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