Re: [Rd] Numerics behind splineDesign

2012-07-31 Thread Ben Bolker
... I took the original poster's word for it that there were no citations in the help files (sorry, that got snipped from my reply because Gmane was complaining ... " I notice that the help pages for these functions don't seem to have any citations.") Now that I took 30 seconds to go back and loo

Re: [Rd] Numerics behind splineDesign

2012-07-31 Thread Ben Bolker
Nathaniel Smith pobox.com> writes: > I find myself needing to be able to reproduce the spline bases that R > computes when using ns() and bs() -- but without using R. Before I go > diving headfirst into the C code in > ./src/library/splines/src/splines.c, are there any simpler references > anyone

[Rd] Numerics behind splineDesign

2012-07-31 Thread Nathaniel Smith
Hi all, I find myself needing to be able to reproduce the spline bases that R computes when using ns() and bs() -- but without using R. Before I go diving headfirst into the C code in ./src/library/splines/src/splines.c, are there any simpler references anyone might recommend? I notice that the he