Re: [Rd] Rd] Numerics behind splineDesign

2012-08-02 Thread Terry Therneau
Clearly, I got it wrong. Thanks to others for the clearer and correct message. Terry T On 08/02/2012 11:59 AM, William Dunlap wrote: If R's bs() and ns() are like S+'s (they do give very similar results* and S+'s were written by Doug Bates), then bs() does not do any linear algebra (like qr()) o

Re: [Rd] Rd] Numerics behind splineDesign

2012-08-02 Thread William Dunlap
If R's bs() and ns() are like S+'s (they do give very similar results* and S+'s were written by Doug Bates), then bs() does not do any linear algebra (like qr()) on splineDesign's output. bs() needs to come up with a default set of knots (if the user didn't supply them), combine the Boundary.knots

Re: [Rd] Rd] Numerics behind splineDesign

2012-08-02 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Terry Therneau wrote: > > > On 08/02/2012 05:00 AM, r-devel-requ...@r-project.org wrote: >> >> Now I just have to grovel over the R code in ns() and bs() to figure >> out how exactly they pick knots and handle boundary conditions, plus >> there is some code that I d

Re: [Rd] Rd] Numerics behind splineDesign

2012-08-02 Thread Terry Therneau
On 08/02/2012 05:00 AM, r-devel-requ...@r-project.org wrote: Now I just have to grovel over the R code in ns() and bs() to figure out how exactly they pick knots and handle boundary conditions, plus there is some code that I don't understand in ns() that uses qr() to postprocess the output from

Re: [Rd] INDEX rdb and rdx files

2012-08-02 Thread peter dalgaard
On Aug 2, 2012, at 11:22 , luxInteg wrote: > On Thursday 02 August 2012 09:39:18 peter dalgaard wrote: > >> I think you need to read the Installation and Administration manual: >> >> http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html > > thanks > but if you mean this > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manual

Re: [Rd] Numerics behind splineDesign

2012-08-02 Thread Bert Gunter
Thanks Peter. So it was I who was being too "hasty." (heh-heh).* -- Bert *Yes, it was bad once. So twice makes it ... what, pathetic? On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:17 AM, peter dalgaard wrote: > > On Aug 1, 2012, at 18:03 , Bert Gunter wrote: > >> Inline... >> >> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Na

Re: [Rd] Numerics behind splineDesign

2012-08-02 Thread Bert Gunter
Inline... On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > Thanks everyone for the suggestions. > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:39 PM, peter dalgaard wrote: >> >> On Jul 31, 2012, at 15:46 , Bert Gunter wrote: >> >>> Well, I would first check the references given in the Help file!. >>> That

Re: [Rd] help with install.packages

2012-08-02 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 02.08.2012 10:33, luxInteg wrote: Greetings, I am trying to use install.packages obtained from here http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/utils/html/install.packages.html My computer has these OS: 64-bit blfs linux R2.15.1 # A) I did the following:- export DIR=/home/st

Re: [Rd] INDEX rdb and rdx files

2012-08-02 Thread luxInteg
On Thursday 02 August 2012 09:39:18 peter dalgaard wrote: > I think you need to read the Installation and Administration manual: > > http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html thanks but if you mean this http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Installation I have studied it and I have n

Re: [Rd] INDEX rdb and rdx files

2012-08-02 Thread peter dalgaard
On Aug 2, 2012, at 10:32 , luxInteg wrote: > Greetings, > > > My computer has these > OS: 64-bit blfs linux R2.15.1 > > If one has downloaded a tarball for example MASS.tar.ga and unzip it > > Are there R commands to generate the following?:- > > a) the INDEX file > b) 'R' files such as

[Rd] INDEX rdb and rdx files

2012-08-02 Thread luxInteg
Greetings, My computer has these OS: 64-bit blfs linux R2.15.1 If one has downloaded a tarball for example MASS.tar.ga and unzip it Are there R commands to generate the following?:- a) the INDEX file b) 'R' files such as MASS.rdb and MASS.rdx advice would be appreciated sincerely luxInt

[Rd] help with install.packages

2012-08-02 Thread luxInteg
Greetings, I am trying to use install.packages obtained from here http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/utils/html/install.packages.html My computer has these OS: 64-bit blfs linux R2.15.1 # A) I did the following:- export DIR=/home/stats/R-2.15.0_runTEST190712A export DEST=/