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Thomas W Blackwell · Jul 17, 2003 · r-help

Please DO READ the section "Details" in help("nls"). - tom blackwell - u michigan medical school - ann arbor -

R-1.7.1 package installation problem
Thomas W Blackwell · Sep 18, 2003 · r-help

Rong - I think you want the www.bioconductor.org site. - tom blackwell - u michigan medical school - ann arbor -

frustration with ave()
Thomas W Blackwell · Sep 28, 2003 · r-help

Maintainers - I should have said I am running R 1.7-1 on RedHat Linux 8.0. - tom blackwell - u michigan medical school -

discretization method
Thomas W Blackwell · Sep 23, 2003 · r-help

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Jaime Lopez Carvajal wrote: > I need to apply discretization to my continuous data. > Is there a method in R to do this? See help("cut"). - tom blackwell - u michigan medical school - ann arbor -

Scalar vs. vector
Thomas W Blackwell · Apr 8, 2003 · r-help

Yes, scalars are really trivial vectors. On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Chris Fehily wrote: > Do these statements yield identical types of objects? > x = 3 > and > y = c(3) > > That is, intrinsically, is x, like y, a vector of length > one...

cannot have a function argument named 'break'
Thomas W Blackwell · Nov 2, 2003 · r-help

Dear list - I just discovered to my surprise that I cannot define a function with an argument named 'break' or 'while'! 'breaks' is okay. Maybe this is no surprise to the R developers. R-1.7.1, 2003-06-16...

prcomp or princomp
Thomas W Blackwell · Oct 6, 2003 · r-help

Ann - Some useful references are given in the help for each function. Please DO READ the help. - tom blackwell - u michigan medical school - ann arbor - On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Ann Devitt wrote: > Hello, > is there any documentation on doing...

installation of R
Thomas W Blackwell · Oct 6, 2003 · r-help

This is a question you should be able to answer from the R web site, www.r-project.org. - tom blackwell - u michigan medical school - ann arbor - On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Stefanie Chau wrote: > I wish to install R...

leave-one-out
Thomas W Blackwell · Aug 14, 2003 · r-help

help.search("cross validation") returns 'cv.glm(boot)' and the boot package provides many other utilities for this. - tom blackwell - u michigan medical school - ann arbor - On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, array chip wrote: > Hi, is there a package for...

besoin d'aide
Thomas W Blackwell · Apr 16, 2003 · r-help

? "concatener" ? Transliterated, this suggests the function rbind(). The function merge() does something very special. If rbind() will do what you want, it might be much faster. - tom blackwell - u michigan medical school - ann arbor - On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Erwan...

NUMERIC DERIVATE
Thomas W Blackwell · Dec 17, 2003 · r-help

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Savano S. Pereira wrote: > UseRs, > > I used the optim function > > valor.optim <- optim(c(1,1,1),logexp1,method > ="BFGS",control=list(fnscale=-1),hessian=T); > > and I want to calculate the derivates, [ ... snip ... ] > > but...

How would I analyse data like this?
Thomas W Blackwell · Mar 19, 2003 · r-help

> ... the graph is too wide ... (from hist()). Ah, yes. Try setting parameter xlim=c(0,1200) in the call to hist(). If that doesn't work, then catch the return value from hist(), and re-plot using barplot(). For example...

Help on a simple function.
Thomas W Blackwell · Feb 21, 2003 · r-help

Make it three separate functions. This gives an example of how argument passing works. > Pdig <- function(nlinhas) { > Tdig <- (15.50 + 7.45*nlinhas); > (3*(Tdig*(30/3600))+1*(30*(30/3600))); > } > Ldig <- function(nlinhas) { > Tdig <- (30.50 + 7.45*nlinhas...

help("print") seems truncated
Thomas W Blackwell · Sep 16, 2003 · r-help

Dear r-help - I just noticed that in my R-1.7.1 on i386-pc-linux-gnu, the page displayed by help("print") ends with the line " ## Printing of factors illustrated for ex" and then no more. It looks...

a quick Q: a function in R, equivalent to "atoi" function in C?
Thomas W Blackwell · Jul 30, 2003 · r-help

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Yan Yu wrote: > I wonder is there a function in R, which can achieve the functionality > of atoi in C, i.e., convert from a character string to a number? as.numeric() > I use Sys...

CLEDITOR
Thomas W Blackwell · Dec 12, 2003 · r-help

(oops, wrong keystroke) ... in the unix source directories (at least for Redhat linux) on CRAN. - tom blackwell - u michigan medical school - ann arbor - On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Stephen Dicey wrote: > How can I set up the CLEDITOR (command line...

How to define a function to be smooth?
Thomas W Blackwell · Nov 4, 2003 · r-help

Is this a homework assignment ? - tom blackwell - u michigan medical school - ann arbor - On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Feng Zhang wrote: > Hey, R-listers > > When we say a function f(t) is smooth, does this mean that > f has infinite...

plot w/o axes [was: predict.lm with (logical) NA vector]
Thomas W Blackwell · Nov 10, 2003 · r-help

Ann - Maybe you are looking for plot( ..., xlab="", ylab="") followed by title(xlab="the real x axis label") title(ylab="the real y axis label", mgp=c(2.5,0.5,0)) This is a construction that I use all...

CLEDITOR
Thomas W Blackwell · Dec 12, 2003 · r-help

Stephen - If command line editing does not work as it should, I would look first into providing a patched readline. See Graeme Ambler's patched version in On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Stephen Dicey wrote: > How can I set up...

Tukey's HSD
Thomas W Blackwell · Mar 19, 2003 · r-help

What function "simint()" ? At least using R 1.6.1 (Redhat linux), help.search("simint") returns "No help files found ...". Also, it's no surprise that na.omit() might omit rows with NA's but then NOT purge the levels...

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