Re: [Rd] robust updating methods

2015-03-23 Thread Thierry Onkelinx
Dear Ben, Last week I was struggling with incorporating lme4 into a package. I traced the problem and made a reproducible example ( https://github.com/ThierryO/testlme4). It looks very simular to the problem you describe. The 'tests' directory contains the reproducible examples. confint() of a m

Re: [Rd] Possible values for R version status

2015-03-23 Thread peter dalgaard
On 23 Mar 2015, at 14:36 , Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 23/03/2015 9:17 AM, Richard Cotton wrote: >> Is there a complete list somewhere of the possible values for R's >> status, as returned by version$status? >> >> I know about these values: >> Stable: "" >> Devel: "Under development (unstable)"

Re: [Rd] Possible values for R version status

2015-03-23 Thread Richard Cotton
Thanks for this. You are right that it's a lowercase "a"; the documentation on the R.Version help page is incorrect. That describes status as 'the status of the version (e.g., "Alpha")'. On 23 March 2015 at 16:36, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 23/03/2015 9:17 AM, Richard Cotton wrote: >> >> Is the

Re: [Rd] Possible values for R version status

2015-03-23 Thread Mark van der Loo
In the R installation and administration manual[*] I see at least mentioned The alpha, beta and RC versions of an upcoming x.y.0 release are available [...] so 'beta' seems to be an option unless it is only used informally there. Mark [*] http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-ad

Re: [Rd] Possible values for R version status

2015-03-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 23/03/2015 9:17 AM, Richard Cotton wrote: Is there a complete list somewhere of the possible values for R's status, as returned by version$status? I know about these values: Stable: "" Devel: "Under development (unstable)" Patched: "Patched" Release candidate: "RC" Alpha: "Alpha" I don't th

[Rd] Possible values for R version status

2015-03-23 Thread Richard Cotton
Is there a complete list somewhere of the possible values for R's status, as returned by version$status? I know about these values: Stable: "" Devel: "Under development (unstable)" Patched: "Patched" Release candidate: "RC" Alpha: "Alpha" Are there any others that I've missed? __