Dear Mark, Many thanks.
Best Regards, Ashim On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote: > According to the NEWS file for the package: > > https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/car/NEWS > > the Ask() function was removed in car version 2.0-0, which was released on > 2010-07-26. So it has been gone for about 6 years. > > The version of car that is used in the documentation that you are using is > 1.2-16, which is from 2009-10-11. > > So the online documentation source is outdated. > > I see that the Ask() function is listed in the first edition of John's > book, which I have on my shelf, but I don't have the second edition to know > if that had been updated. A review of the index for the second edition on > Amazon.com would suggest that it was removed for the second edition. > > Regards, > > Marc Schwartz > > > > On Jun 21, 2016, at 8:29 PM, Ashim Kapoor <ashimkap...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I am reading the book An R and S plus companion to Applied Regression > and I > > found this function there. > > > > Googling gave me the link [1]. > > > > 1. http://svitsrv25.epfl.ch/R-doc/library/car/html/Ask.html > > > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 6:57 AM, Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> > > wrote: > > > >> On 22/06/16 13:06, Ashim Kapoor wrote: > >> > >>> Dear All, > >>> > >>> my details:- > >>> > >>>> sessionInfo() > >>>> > >>> R version 3.3.0 (2016-05-03) > >>> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) > >>> Running under: Ubuntu 15.10 > >>> > >>> locale: > >>> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_IN LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=en_IN > >>> [4] LC_COLLATE=en_IN LC_MONETARY=en_IN LC_MESSAGES=en_IN > >>> [7] LC_PAPER=en_IN LC_NAME=C LC_ADDRESS=C > >>> [10] LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=en_IN LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > >>> > >>> attached base packages: > >>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > >>> > >>> other attached packages: > >>> [1] car_2.1-2 > >>> > >>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > >>> [1] Rcpp_0.12.5 lattice_0.20-33 MASS_7.3-43 > >>> grid_3.3.0 > >>> [5] nlme_3.1-128 MatrixModels_0.4-1 SparseM_1.7 > >>> minqa_1.2.4 > >>> [9] nloptr_1.0.4 Matrix_1.2-6 splines_3.3.0 > >>> lme4_1.1-12 > >>> [13] pbkrtest_0.4-6 parallel_3.3.0 mgcv_1.8-7 > >>> nnet_7.3-10 > >>> [17] quantreg_5.24 > >>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> ## Not run: > >>>> attach(UN) > >>>> > >>>> # enter the power-transformation parameter > >>>> # start with 1 > >>>> Ask(p, function(p) qq.plot(box.cox(gdp, p), > >>>> > >>> + ylab=paste("transformed gdp, power =",p))) > >>> Error: could not find function "Ask" > >>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> What can I do to correct this? > >>> > >> > >> What led you to believe that such a function exists (in the "car" > package > >> or anywhere else for that matter)? And what exactly do you want it to > do > >> for you? > >> > >> cheers, > >> > >> Rolf Turner > >> > >> -- > >> Technical Editor ANZJS > >> Department of Statistics > >> University of Auckland > >> Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
