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Mike Prager · Jan 21, 2005 · r-help

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is there a formatted output in R? [User functions]
Mike Prager · Mar 12, 2006 · r-help

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savePlot() no longer automatically adds an extension to the filename.
Mike Prager · Jun 3, 2008 · r-devel

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TCL/TK and R documentation?
Mike Prager · Jan 10, 2007 · r-help

I am hoping something has changed since I last asked about this. Is there any good source of documentation, including examples, of using tcl/tk as a gui for R applications?

(PR#8502) comment
Mike Prager · Jan 18, 2006 · r-devel

In my example, I should have included the defaults to the wrapper function in its definition, rather than in the call to postscript(). That of course does NOT affect the validity of my bug report nor the ability of my...

Dots in function names
Mike Prager · Sep 30, 2005 · r-help

Recent R function names seem to be using CaseOfTheLetters to mark words rather than dots as was done previously. Is the use of dots in function names deprecated, or is that simply a style choice? Will function names with dots...

IWLS vs direct ML estimation
Mike Prager · Nov 4, 2008 · r-help

sandsky <realstone at hotmail.com> wrote: > I think that IWLS provides the computational flexibility. Because when there > exists no analytical solution, IWLS makes it possible to solve via the > numerical solution. > > Do you have any idea for this? My impression...

Nonlinear regression
Mike Prager · May 21, 2008 · r-help

LXu at HNRG.COM wrote: > Could someone help me on the following: > SAS has DUD (Does not Use Derivatives) for nonlinear regression. > > Does "R" has a similar capability? > nls() -- Mike Prager, NOAA, Beaufort, NC * Opinions expressed are personal and not...

Modeling lotteries, Nigerian scams, and so on
Mike Prager · Aug 4, 2003 · r-help

Colleagues-- Has anyone here developed a model of the increase of spam? An epidemiologist, perhaps? If so, when does the model predict that email will become unusable for serious purposes? It seems the time is approaching with exponential swiftness (and...

Command equivalent of rgui "File, Save to File"?
Mike Prager · Sep 11, 2006 · r-help

R 2.3.1 on Windows XP Professional. I am writing some scripts to generate examples. The Rgui menu item "File, Save to File" is helpful. Is there perhaps an equivalent R function that can be incorporated into a script...

Replace NaN with zero
Mike Prager · Nov 25, 2008 · r-help

Mike Prager <mike.prager at noaa.gov> wrote: > The function is.nan() does not operate like is.na(). One could > consider that a design deficiency in R. I meant to write, "design inconsistency". -- Mike Prager, NOAA, Beaufort, NC * Opinions expressed...

text formatting
Mike Prager · Sep 21, 2007 · r-help

stephen bond <stenka1 at go.com> wrote: > Does R have any functions for C/Fortran style text formatting when a > number needs to be output right-justified in a fixed length field? > > say '%2d %3d %5.3f' ?formatC -- Mike Prager...

Adding labels to variables
Mike Prager · Aug 26, 2004 · r-help

At 04:36 PM 08/25/2004, Peter Dalgaard wrote: >There's a good chance that R-2.x will introduce usePackage() and >eventually remove library() as a tool for loading packages. That would be a welcome instance of consistency...

Larger Fonts for x/y-axis
Mike Prager · Aug 12, 2008 · r-help

Andreas Tille <tillea at rki.de> wrote: > what is the trick to get larger fonts for Graphs to make a good > slide for presentations? Generally I use something like cex = 2 in the plot function, as well as lwd = 3...

limits
Mike Prager · May 13, 2009 · r-help

Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > So you want some software that can do symbolic calculations? In that > case use other software. R is designed for numerical analyses. In particular, if you are looking for good free...

beginning my R-learning
Mike Prager · Dec 5, 2006 · r-help

Michael McCulloch <mm at pinest.org> wrote: > Hello, > I'm just beginning to learn R. What books/online learning modules with > datasets would you suggest? > Thank you! Thomas Lumley has a nice introduction here: http://faculty.washington.edu/tlumley/b514...

Installing packages into updated R
Mike Prager · Dec 20, 2005 · r-help

A minor inconvenience in updating an R installation is remembering which packages were installed previously. Has anyone written a script to inspect a previous installation, then get & install the same packages into the new installation? -- Michael Prager NOAA Center for...

Plotmath with values?
Mike Prager · Dec 31, 2008 · r-help

"Charles C. Berry" <cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Mike Prager wrote: > > > I hope to use the plotmath facility to print titles that mix > > math and values of R variables. [...] > > plot(1:3, 1:3...

4D Plot
Mike Prager · May 27, 2010 · r-help

On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:42:54 +0200, "Spitzner, Andrea" <Andrea.Spitzner at uba.de> wrote: >Hello, >I need some help with a 4D-Plot. I can't offer a lot of help, other than to note that There...

Clearing graphics history (Windows)
Mike Prager · Dec 24, 2002 · r-help

Using R 1.6.1 on Windows 2000. The graphics history stored for the windows() device can be cleared using the menu system of rgui for Windows. Is there a corresponding R function that can be called from a script...

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