Warning: Something of a personal rant, clearly reflecting my own hangups,
and having nothing to do with my company or anyone else! A good reason for
most to stop reading now....
While you will find respondents on this list on the whole quite gracious in
their willingness to help newbies learn R, there are limits to this
patience. In particular, questions of the sort below seem to me, at least to
be clear announcements that the original poster has **not** read the posting
guide, nor has made an honest attempt to learn R by studying what I think is
quite good basic documentation (see, for example, "An Introduction to R";
CRAN lists many more similar resources). While I grant that sometimes the
online help is a bit terse, I don't think that anyone who has made an honest
attempt to read the basic docs would ask such questions. If I am wrong in
this, I apologize. But, if not, then I consider the questions unworthy of my
time to respond to. Whether right or wrong, queries posted in a way that
conveys that impression are less likely to elicit good replies. I guess the
moral is that on this list anyway, good behavior is rewarded, and bad
behavior is ignored.
Cheers,
Bert Gunter
-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Van Campenhout Bjorn
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 7:51 AM
To: r-help
Cc: Timothy.Mak at iop.kcl.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [R] 2 questions
Hi!
I'm new here. Want to ask two possibly quite basic questions:
1. How can I clear all objects in one stroke?
how about
rm(ls())
try
rm(list=ls())
Bjorn
2. How can I perform a regression with independent variables specified by
an object?