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interpolation function

2 messages · Rolf Turner, Spencer Graves

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Rolf Turner
# 
What you intend strikes me as being pretty silly.  Do not expect R to
work magic for you.  Even if there were such a function as you desire
in R, the results it would give would be effectively meaningless for
data such as you exhibited.

			cheers,

				Rolf Turner
				rolf at math.unb.ca
Spencer Graves
# 
I hope you don't take offense at anything said on this list.  My 
philosophy about this is summarized in something I wrote last December 
that has since been immoratlized in the "fortunes" package:

 > library(fortunes)
 > fortune("Spencer Graves")

Our great-great grandchilren as yet unborn may read some of the stupid
questions and/or answers that I and perhaps others give from time to 
time. I'd
rather get flamed for saying something stupid in public on this list than to
continue to provide substandard service to the people with whom I work 
because
I perpetrated the same mistake in an environment in which no one 
questioned so
effectively my errors.
    -- Spencer Graves (in a discussion on whether answers on R-help 
should be
       more polite)
       R-help (December 2004)

	  Best Wishes,
	  spencer graves
Rolf Turner wrote: