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[Martin Maechler] >2) The oldest stuff that I have is all from 1995; Mailing lists seem to go back into 1995 too. I found a few messages from around 1994 on topics to be later found within R, but I...

[dennis.mcleod at uchospitals.edu] >I am new to Linux, and I am trying to install R 2.3.1 on SUSE Linux >10.0. The RPM installer, YAST, states that I need libgfortran.so.0. There is a SuSE...

[Ross Darnell] >>> I'm trying to use reshape but I cannot quite understand how it >>> works. >Yup. 2.6.0 will also allow this simplified variant: > > reshape(mydat, direction="long", varying=3:8, sep="") > > [...] Hi, people. Have "melt" and "cast...

[Tim Brown] >This seems like an obvious question but I can't find the answer in the >"par" help document --- I'd like to make a plot where the 0,0 point is >in the top left of the screen...

[m p] >Can someone point to a package with Newton-Raphson method using >analytic derivatives. This is just for a 1D problem. Could not find >easily anything suitable. You may check: http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca/plaisirs/animations/NRart/R...

[toby909 at gmail.com] >I was wondering if I can avoid a time-consuming for loop on my 600000 >obs dataset. >school_id y >8 9.87 >8 8.89 >8 7.89 >8 8.88 >20 6.78 >20...

[Alberto Monteiro] > Maybe I'll write a letter to Santa Claus [there are people > who write to congressman; they must have more faith than me]. :-) :-) > I wish a language where I can write > a = b + 10 > and then when I...

[Paul August] > I used to work on several computers and to use a flash drive to > synchronize the workspace on each machine before starting to work on > it. I found that .RData always caused some trouble: Often it is > corrupted...

Hi, people. This is R 2.2.1 under i686 Linux: > attributes(as.vector(data.frame(a=1))) $names [1] "a" $row.names [1] "1" $class [1] "data.frame" ?attribute says: 'as.vector', a generic, attempts to coerce its argument...

[Duncan Murdoch] >[Robert Citek] >> Does R have command or object name completion? >[...] I don't think it would be a welcome change to the console >versions; some of them use readline's filename completion which would >almost certainly be broken...

Hi, people. Two days ago, I sent to this list a little toy for exploring polynomiographs (yet, the mathematical formulas were not polynomials anymore, so the name is not really appropriate). After studying R calls, expressions and functions a bit...

[Brian Ripley] >No one actually said it was a *working* example [...] Do you mean that, whenever we see something presented as an example within or around the R system, we should not take it as dependable unless it is explicitly...

[gblevins] >If x2 equal 2 then I want to delete all the rows for that person from >the dataframe--see Before and After below. >Before >x1 <- c(1,1,1,2,2,3,3,3) >x2 <- c(2,3,3...

[Jan Verbesselt] > Is it possible to create a type of 'movie' in R based on the output > of several figures (e.g., jpegs) via the plot() function. I obtained > dynamic results with the plotting function and would like to save...

[Brian Ripley] >[Fran??ois Pinard] >>[Brian Ripley] >>>One problem [...] is that R's I/O is not line-oriented but >>>stream-oriented. So selecting lines is not particularly easy in R. >>I understand that you mean random access to lines...

[Seth Falcon] >[Fran?ois Pinard] >> Hi, people. A tiny suggestion for the system.time function. >> Could the returned vector have names? These could be like: >> c("User", "System", "Elapsed", "Sub.User", "Sub.System") >> That would then produce self-documenting output...

[Duncan Murdoch] >[Fran?ois Pinard] >> Hi, people. Executing the following command: >> hist(rpois(100,5), labels=TRUE) >> yields a graphic in which some labels are truncated (on an X11 > I don't see this on Windows using windows(), or Linux...

>[Damien Joly] >> The entity has a policy of only using software that has been >> purchased and "properly licensed" (whatever that means). [...] >> Any ideas? [Rogerio Porto] >I think there isn't such a vendor. A while ago, the Cygnus organisation has...

[Andris Jankevics] >I have two vectors: >A <- c(1:10) >B<- seq(1,10,2) >Now I want to make a table form vectors A and B as rows, and if a value of A >isn't present B, then...

[Pikounis, Bill [CNTUS]] > view <- function(x) { > warnopt <- options()$warn > options(warn=-1) > on.exit({sink(); options(warn=warnopt)}) > edit(x) > invisible() > } I'm surprised by the necessity of "sink()". Presuming it is necessary indeed, the above could be simplified a...