On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 14:50 +0100, e-letter wrote: > 2008/5/15 Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Did you happen to notice the part at the bottom of every message about > > "provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code"? > > > Sorry, don't understand what that statement means in my context. > > > Considering that the result you quote from "251" has 2 coefficients > > and the result from "171" has 3 coefficients one might contemplate the > > possibility that you are fitting different models or perhaps using > > different data. However we can't verify anything about the causes > > because we have no data regarding the problem. > > data below: > > y a b c d e f > 1 300 39.87 39.85 39.90 39.87333 90000 > 2 400 45.16 45.23 45.17 45.18667 160000 > 3 500 50.72 51.03 50.90 50.88333 250000 > 4 600 56.85 56.80 57.02 56.89000 360000 > 5 700 63.01 63.09 63.14 63.08000 490000 > 6 800 69.52 59.68 69.63 66.27667 640000 > > so substitute a in my generic equation below for data column e (e.g. > 39.87...) and b for f (e.g. 9e4). > > > > > Perhaps you are Brian Ripley's evil twin trying to provoke him. I > > would say that references to a nonexistent version "171" are > > deliberately provocative. > > No idea and couldn't care less who br is: > > R : Copyright 2003, The R Development Core Team > Version 1.7.1 (2003-06-16) > > Get your facts correct before spouting further rubbish.
I'm sorry "e-letter", but that is just not an acceptable attitude for this list. I could explain Doug's BR comment (it was just a little bit of fun), but I guess from your answer you haven't been on the list for very long - and you might come to regret caring less who BR is - the assistance he has given me and countless other UseR's other the years has been invaluable. I'm amazed people still bothered to help you after this response - just goes to show that most people on this list are incredibly helpful and are doing their bit to help people use a wonderful piece of software; furthering the cause. There really isn't an R version 171 or even 251; the printed output from the R session *you* quote shows that. Glad you got your problem sorted in the end. G -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
