[Rd] Fontconfig warning with X11() on MAC OS X 10.4

2009-02-26 Thread MerliseClyde
I posted previously about problems with X11() on my MAC using R 2.8.1 . After installing the securilty update for Tiger this morning, X11() now works from an xterm :-) However, I receive the following warnings with any plotting command using the default X11 settings. Fontconfig warning: no elem

[Rd] besselI inaccurate for negative integer order (PR#13556)

2009-02-26 Thread Jerry . Lewis
Full_Name: Jerry W. Lewis Version: 2.8.1 OS: Windows XP Professional Submission from: (NULL) (198.180.131.16) It should be the case that besselI(x,-nu) == besselI(x,nu) == besselI(x,abs(nu)) for integer nu, yet R currently can return ridiculous values when nu is a negative integer. For instanc

[Rd] using predict method with an offset

2009-02-26 Thread Kenneth Knoblauch
Hi, I have run into another problem using offsets, this time with the predict function, where there seems to be a contradiction again between the behavior and the help page. On the man page for predict.lm, it says Offsets specified by offset in the fit by lm will not be included in predictions,

Re: [Rd] [R] Problems with ARIMA models?

2009-02-26 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
that's interesting, marie. on his webpage [1], david s. stoffer provides concrete arguments for why the r arima function in the stats package should be considered to produce misleading, if not just wrong results. david (cc:ed for reference) reported the issue in october 2005, bug report #8231 [2