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19 results for “from:Bill Oliver”

R-beta: R and Macintosh linux-pmac
(Bill Oliver) · Oct 1, 1997 · r-help

Hello. I'm curious whether anyone has successfully installed R on a Power Mac running linux-pmac. I would feel much more at ease about installing linux on my Mac if I was aware that someone has been able to...

S Programming Book at Amazon.com
Bill Oliver · Jan 8, 2001 · r-help

As of a moment ago (9 a.m., Monday, Jan. 8, 2001), the S Programming book by Venables and Ripley was once again selling for 17.98 American dollars at Amazon.com. Alas, I notice that "Mixed Effects Models in...

maximum likelihood example?
Bill Oliver · Dec 15, 2002 · r-help

Jeff D. Hamann wrote: > I'm trying to get a grasp of maximum-likelihood estimation and would like to > find a package that performs mle (hopefully a simple example). It seems as > if there are plenty of packages that make...

Flushing the console under Windows
Bill Oliver · Aug 29, 2001 · r-help

Is there a way to clear the console under Windows with a command in R code? I've tried "flush.console()", but nothing happens on my system. I would guess that that function has a different purpose. Thanks! -Bill > R...

multiple correlation?
Bill Oliver · Aug 23, 2001 · r-help

----- Original Message ----- From: "Pesl Thomas" <thomas.pesl at arcs.ac.at > I'm looking for a function for the 'multiple correlation' but can not figure > out what it is called in R by using the html search function. Maybe it...

Nelder-Meade simplex algorithm
Bill Oliver · Aug 1, 2001 · r-help

The general purpose optimization function "optim" will apply the Nelder-Mead algorithm by default. Type "?optim" for help. -Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gareth Ridall" <g.ridall at fsc.qut.edu.au> To: <R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> Sent...

scale for the y-axis
Bill Oliver · Nov 25, 2002 · r-help

simon lessels wrote: > hi there > I hope you can help me > I'm doing a boxplot and I'm trying to change the y-axis from seconds to > minutes > I do this: > boxplot ( time~movement*scene, ylab = "Time (seconds)", xlab...

how to type long string
Bill Oliver · Jul 14, 2001 · r-help

----- Original Message ----- From: "Guoqiang Wang" <guo52717 at yahoo.com> To: <r-help at lists.R-project.org> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 12:08 PM Subject: [R] how to type long string > Hi, All: > > I try to type some long...

a < b < c is alway TRUE
Bill Oliver · Jul 6, 2001 · r-help

----- Original Message ----- From: "Till Baumgaertel" <till.baumgaertel at epost.de> To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> Cc: "Uwe Ligges" <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 5:21 AM Subject: Re: [R] a < b...

taking rows from a data frame
Bill Oliver · Nov 20, 2002 · r-help

Lei Jiang wrote: > hi, there. > > Here is my problem. I have a data frame by read.table(). I want to take > every row from this data frame and compute the correlation between the > current row and a fixed vector. finally...

how to type long string
Bill Oliver · Jul 14, 2001 · r-help

----- Original Message ----- From: "Guoqiang Wang" <guo52717 at yahoo.com> To: <r-help at lists.R-project.org> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 12:08 PM Subject: [R] how to type long string > Hi, All: > > I try to type some long...

smoothing binary data
Bill Oliver · Dec 12, 2000 · r-help

I'm trying to figure out a good way to smooth binary data. The ideal approach appears to be the "sm.logit" function in library "sm", but I haven't had success with it. Below, is some code illustrating what...

Reading SAS version 8 data into R
Bill Oliver · Aug 23, 2001 · r-help

----- Original Message ----- From: "S?ren H?jsgaard" <sorenh at mail.dk> > Hi, > > SAS transport files created with the xport engine in SAS can be read using read.xport. However, the xport engine only works with SAS version 6, and consequently...

fastest R platform: follow-up and summary
Bill Oliver · Apr 17, 2001 · r-help

If the results from the benchmark below can be generalized, code involving loops may run more efficiently under Win2k than under Windows 98 and Windows ME. After upgrading from Windows 98 to Win2k, the benchmark below ran roughly twice as...

dev.ask
Bill Oliver · Dec 19, 2000 · r-help

One can set the graphical parameter "ask" with the "par(ask=T)" command and then source a file with a sequence of graphics commands. One will then be prompted for each plot. To see an example of this feature type...

POSIX Date-Time Classes and missing values
Bill Oliver · Jun 24, 2001 · r-help

Is there a good method for dealing with missing values when using the POSIX date-time classes? I would like to convert character data with some missing values to dates, so that I can calculate intervals of time. However, I...

gls function, very old results
Bill Oliver · Jul 10, 2001 · r-help

----- Original Message ----- From: "Raphael Gottardo" <raph at alvie-mail.lanl.gov> To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 11:50 AM Subject: [R] gls function, very old results > Hello R-users, > > I am currently...

smoothing binary data
Bill Oliver · Dec 14, 2000 · r-help

Thank you *very* much for your help. The package (mgcv) you have written is wonderful. Following your suggestion, I'm using the code below to produce the plot I was trying to generate. However, the default plot your package generates...

Scripting capabilities for R
Bill Oliver · May 29, 2001 · r-help

Students who are using R and S-Plus under Windows may want to try out Uwe Ligges's plugin for the WinEdt text editor. They can find it at http://rsync.r-project.org/pub/R/ R-WinEdt can be...

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