Re: [Rd] patch for textspecial and defaultfont in xfig

2009-01-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Thank you for the suggested patch, but you have not provided any tests. With reasonably comprehensive tests we wil consider it, but not otherwise (no one in R-core is likely to use this, so we need to automate tests that it keeps on working in future releases). On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Sebastian

[Rd] patch for textspecial and defaultfont in xfig

2009-01-18 Thread Sebastian Fischmeister
Hello, The current xfig device lacks the functionality to set the textspecial flag and use the defaultfont in xfig. This is necessary when you want to export to xfig and use interpreted text (e.g., $ \frac{1}{e}$ gets interpreted by latex). The attached patch adds this functionality. W

Re: [Rd] DierckxSpline segfault

2009-01-18 Thread Spencer Graves
Hello: The following shows how to fit a simple periodic function to data using Fourier bases in the 'fda' package. Fixing the bug you reported in the 'percur' function may not be easy. (To my knowledge, the primary capability in the 'DierckxSpline' package not otherwise available in R is

[Rd] A model pass-through function

2009-01-18 Thread Terry Therneau
I've found 'pass-through' functions to be useful in the survival library. For example cluster <- function(x) x This allows the coxph routine to use the specials attribute of the terms structure to spot variables that should be treated specially, with needing to create a special class.