I appreciate Tim's comments.
I myself have a "social science" paper coming out soon in which I felt
forced to use p-values, given their ubiquity. However, I also told
readers of the paper that confidence intervals are much more informative
and I do provide them. As I said earlier, there is no av
To clarify, I favor changing the defaults for stringsAsFactors and
show.signif.stars to FALSE in R-3.0.0, and view any attempt to remove
either functionality as a seemingly simple but fundamentally misguided idea.
This is just my opinion, of course. The change could easily be accompanied
by a sta
Changing the default for show.signif.stars should be sufficient to ensure
that, if people are going to get themselves into trouble, they will have to
do it on purpose. It's just a visual cue; removing it will not remove the
underlying issue, namely blind acceptance of unlikely null models and
dist
See Writing R Extensions:
"Since R version 2.12.0 markup has been supported in the text, but use
of characters other than English text and punctuation (e.g., ‘<’) may
limit portability."
So the answer is: Don't do that.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
On 09.02.2013 19:27, LaurentRdevel wrote:
Dear R-de
Thanks for bringing this up, Frank.
Since many of us are "educators," I'd like to suggest a bolder approach.
Discontinue even offering the stars as an option. Sadly, we can't stop
reporting p-values, as the world expects them, but does R need to cater
to that attitude by offering star display? F
Dear R-devel-list,
Since I had no answer on the R-help-list
(http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general/284539) I try to
present my trouble on the R-devel-list. I am sure in the past (one year
ago) to succeed in putting accentuated characters in the \title tag in a
.Rd file. Recen
This seems related also. Using match.call to capture ... arguments returns
odd results for missing arguments. Compare against another method of
capturing ... expressions:
capture_subst <- function(...) eval(substitute(alist(...)))
capture_match <- function(...) match.call(expand.dots=FALSE)$...
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