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[ivo welch] >how about people on [...] linux or unix [...] See ?commandArgs. -- Fran?ois Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca

Within ?'::' output, just before "See Also:", "environent" might be a misspelling of "environment". -- Fran?ois Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca

[Gabor Grothendieck] > table(col(mat), mat) Clever, simple, and elegant! :-) -- Fran?ois Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca

[Robert Citek] >How can I increase/decrease the line length for screen wrapping? Check ?options, and within in, "width", it might be what you want. -- Fran?ois Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca

[Taka Matzmoto] >Is there any way to prevent [this] warning message. Hi, Taka. The easiest might be using the suppressWarnings wrapper. See ?suppressWarnings for more information. -- Fran?ois Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca

[Romain Francois] >[...] it would be useful to add an option 'ask' in 'example', maybe >with a default to TRUE in interactive mode Seconded. `example(...)' would be more friendly for the average use. -- Fran?ois Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca

[Duncan Murdoch] >You could also look at Ross Ihaka's paper that is online here: >http://cran.r-project.org/doc/html/interface98-paper/paper.html Interesting read. Thanks for this reference! -- Fran?ois Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca

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. -- Fran?ois Pinard http://pinard...

[Jian Zhang] >how to draw a circle (e.g. radius=10cm) of one point? >And how to choose these points in the circle? There also are "ellipse" functions in both packages "car" and "ellipse". -- Fran?ois Pinard http://pinard.progiciels...

Hi, people. commandArgs.Rd has these lines (a bit before \examples): If \code{trailingOnly=TRUE}, a character vector of those arguments (if any) supplied after \code{==args}. It should likely be: ... \code{--args}. -- Fran?ois Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi...

[Vincent Negre] >[...] I do not understand how qqplot() compute quantiles. Just type ``qqplot`` (without the parentheses) at the R prompt, to see the source code. ``qqplot`` does not especially compute quantiles, which are rather obtained directly through sorting its arguments...

[Brian Ripley] >Note: > 'as.character' truncates components of language objects to 500 > characters (was about 70 before 1.3.1). >so it is working as documented. Not then a bug. Wrong reasoning. Bugs may well be documented :-) -- Fran?ois Pinard...

[Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen] >erf [in] package (CRAN) NORMT3, as help.search("error function") could >have told [you] It does not for me. I would presume one needs NORMT3 installed first, and NORMT3 is seemingly not part of standard base R...

[John Lawrence Aspden] >Another difficulty I'm having is creating a common function (foo, say) to >share between two scripts. In your previous message, you were telling us that you want to load from your home directory. You might put...

[Gabor Grothendieck] >What you are referring to iris is called iris3 in R so just replace >iris with iris3. iris3 is a 3d array in R whereas iris is a data frame. Thanks for this calm and simple reply. Some...

[erkan yanar] >Ist there a possibility to write a R-Script using something like >#!/usr/bin/R >and then alle the requestet commands? You could use: #!/usr/bin/env Rscript (or if you happen to be sure of the location...

[Peter Dalgaard] >Er, Brian, I think you are misfiring this time. Firing is always misfiring, at least in that it lacks elegance. There are ways to speak without the heat, or otherwise, to merely stay silent. Yet this particular aspect...

[Marc Schwartz] >The "Human Spam Filter" (aka Martin) [...] The R mailing list has, indeed, be remarkably spam-free, and well-managed so far that I can see. I do hope, however, that Martin does not have to do the filtering...

[Fran?ois Pinard, clarifying himself] >Adding a newline when "--slave" has not been selected, and whenever the >output is connected to a tty, is also wise, regardless if termination >is effected through q() or through hitting end-of-file. Just...

[Dieter Menne] >hadley wickham <h.wickham <at> gmail.com> writes: >> Unless nabble/gmane have hefty anti-spam protection in place, spammers >> will misuse those services. A centralised target is just too >> tempting. >Works well for gmane. You must be subscribed...