Re: [Rd] numerical issue with t.test

2024-09-16 Thread Michael Dewey
Dear Toby I see no problem there. If you compute the mean and variance of err1 - err2 which is what the paired test is working on then that might help to see what is going on. Michael On 16/09/2024 15:47, Toby Hocking wrote: Hi! I expected that t.test should report a very large p-value (clo

Re: [Rd] [R-pkg-devel] Problem with "compacting" pdf files.

2023-10-02 Thread Michael Dewey
Dear Ivan I was bitten by this recently but fortunately Rolf had beaten me to writing a question. The one thing which really surprised me is that the current message tells me how much space it would have saved if it had compressed the files in which case my immediate response was "Well, why d

Re: [Rd] reshape documentation

2021-03-17 Thread Michael Dewey
Comments in line On 13/03/2021 09:50, SOEIRO Thomas wrote: Dear list, I have some questions/suggestions about reshape. 1) I think a good amount of the popularity of base::reshape alternative is due to the complexity of reshape documentation. It is quite hard (at least it is for me) to figure

Re: [Rd] issue with data()

2021-02-16 Thread Michael Dewey
Dear Terry Option 2 looks the best to me. They have a relatively simple change to make and there are only four of them. Michael On 16/02/2021 14:39, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. via R-devel wrote: I am testing out the next release of survival, which involves running R CMD check on 868 CRAN pac

Re: [Rd] [SPAM] Hard memory limit of 16GB under Windows?

2020-04-07 Thread Michael Dewey
Dear Samuel Does the FAQ for Windows section 2.9 help you here? Michael On 07/04/2020 12:35, Samuel Granjeaud IR/Inserm wrote: Hi, I am not not sure whether this topic belongs to this mail list, but I feel the subscribers here should be the right audience. I noticed that the memory limit repor

Re: [Rd] Default for checkBuilt in update.packages() should be TRUE

2020-02-24 Thread Michael Dewey
I suppose it is too late to change the name but checkBuilt does not immediately clarify to me what it does. It does not check whether I have built a package for instance. Having read Duncan's post at least I now know that I should set it as TRUE until the default is changed. Michael On 24/02/

Re: [Rd] Fwd: Re: RSiteSearch, sos, rdocumentation.org, ...?

2016-09-08 Thread Michael Dewey
I have mixed feelings about this. I used to find the sos package very useful when I first started using it but as the number of packages has grown I now find it gives me a huge list which takes a lot of time to digest. This may of course reflect my rudimentary search term selection skills. Mi

Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-06-02 Thread Michael Dewey
I realise this is not directly related to the topic but if changes are afoot would it be possible to make the use of any sort of news or changelog more prominent in the documentation? I maintain one of the CRAN task views and when someone updates his/her package it is much, much easier for me t

Re: [Rd] Programming Tools CTV

2015-01-23 Thread Michael Dewey
Dear Willem I maintain the MetaAnalysis CTV. I have found it quite practicable to do this without special tools. I use an editor for the XML. I use CRANberries to catch updates and I usually email people to check I have understood a new package. People also kindly email me occasionally with n

Re: [Rd] Writing my first CRAN vignette

2014-05-19 Thread Michael Dewey
At 14:57 18/05/2014, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On 18/05/2014 13:33, Michael Dewey wrote: In fact my first vignette full stop. I am intending to use Sweave. I have read the Sweave documentation and section 1.4 of the extensions manual and apart from (a) do not use split = TRUE (b) and include

[Rd] Writing my first CRAN vignette

2014-05-18 Thread Michael Dewey
separate .bib file? I am not envisaging doing anything complex: text, formulae, some tables and one figure plus a few references. Michael Dewey i...@aghmed.fsnet.co.uk http://www.aghmed.fsnet.co.uk/home.html __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https

Re: [Rd] stringsAsFactors

2013-02-13 Thread Michael Dewey
commonly used >> > > statistics, and the stars are just a simple graphical display of them. >> > > I find some p-values to be useful, and the display to be harmless.) >> > > >> > > I think it's really unlikely the more extreme changes (i.e. dropping >> > > show.signif.stars completely, or dropping p-values) will happen. >> > > >> > > Regarding stringsAsFactors: I'm not going to defend keeping it as is, >> > > I'll let the people who like it defend it. What I will likely do is >> > > make a few changes so that character vectors are automatically changed >> > > to factors in modelling functions, so that operating with >> > > stringsAsFactors=FALSE doesn't trigger silly warnings. >> > >> > __ >> > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > __ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel Michael Dewey i...@aghmed.fsnet.co.uk http://www.aghmed.fsnet.co.uk/home.html __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Typo in documentation for reshape?

2012-11-14 Thread Michael Dewey
At 19:10 14/11/2012, peter dalgaard wrote: On Nov 14, 2012, at 19:15 , Michael Dewey wrote: > When I go ?reshape I get told, amongst other things > > new.row.names > logical; if TRUE and direction = "wide", create new row names in long format from the values of the

[Rd] Typo in documentation for reshape?

2012-11-14 Thread Michael Dewey
ut the behaviour, it does what I would want and what seems to me to be the natural thing but I do not think it is quite as documented. R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26) Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) Michael Dewey i...@aghmed.fsnet.co.uk http://www.aghmed.f

Re: [Rd] No RTFM?

2010-08-24 Thread Michael Dewey
sking us to read the help pages for you." I can appreciate the sentiment in fortunes('rtfm'). In this case, however, "r.ookie" had RTFM (and said so), but evidently the manual was not sufficiently clear. Best Wishes, Spencer Graves Michael Dewey http://www.aghmed.fsnet.co.uk __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] warning from install.packages()

2010-06-02 Thread Michael Dewey
he documented behavior silently ... I will submit this as a wishlist item shortly if no-one complains. Ben Bolker Michael Dewey http://www.aghmed.fsnet.co.uk __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] R CMD check tells me 'no visible binding for globalvariable ', what does it mean?

2010-04-19 Thread Michael Dewey
gt;> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org >>> [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Henrik Bengtsson >>> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 8:24 AM >>> To: Duncan Murdoch >>> Cc: r-devel; Michael D

[Rd] Summary, was Re: R CMD check tells me 'no visible binding for global variable ', what does it mean?

2010-04-13 Thread Michael Dewey
At 16:24 12/04/2010, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 12/04/2010 10:51 AM, Michael Dewey wrote: >> Just to draw a line under it my comment inline below >> When I run R CMD check on a package I have recently started work

[Rd] R CMD check tells me 'no visible binding for global variable ', what does it mean?

2010-04-12 Thread Michael Dewey
ve curve(orfun(x, exp(estimate)), from = 0.001, to = 0.999, add = TRUE) These are the only occurrences of 'x'. Is it just telling me that I have never assigned a value to x? Or is it more sinister than that? As far as I can tell the function does what I intended. Micha

Re: [Rd] R Usage Statistics

2009-11-20 Thread Michael Dewey
f resource poor countries. Consistent with that would be support for the use of methods which anyone can reproduce without having to buy a licence. Thanks, Kevin __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] format (PR#14062)

2009-11-13 Thread Michael Dewey
rom my environment > rm(list=ls(all=T)) > > inputs= c(0.3+0*(1:12) ) > (format(inputs,digits=3,scientific=T,collapse=" ")) [1] "3e-01" "3e-01" "3e-01" "3e-01" "3e-01" "3e-01" "3e-01" "3e-01" "

Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-03 Thread Michael Dewey
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Re: [Rd] Non-GPL packages for R

2009-09-11 Thread Michael Dewey
infrancois.blog.free.fr |- http://tr.im/y8y0 : search the graph gallery from R |- http://tr.im/y8wY : new R package : ant `- http://tr.im/xMdt : update on the ant package __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel Michael Dewey http://www.aghmed.fsnet.co.uk __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] power.t.test (PR#13891)

2009-08-15 Thread Michael Dewey
a power of 1 here. 2. I've run empirical simulations and found that the power predicted by pwr.t.test is correct and so it is clear that power.t.test is inaccurate. __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://sta

[Rd] Advice sought about Rd versions

2009-07-28 Thread Michael Dewey
do the same for later versions (the manual mentions version 2 is coming)? What benefit will I gain? Michael Dewey http://www.aghmed.fsnet.co.uk __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] suggestion for extending ?as.factor

2009-05-09 Thread Michael Dewey
nges actually do *not* solve the problem entirely; further note that (at least inside the sources), we now say that duplicate levels will not just signal a warning, but an error in the future. As long as we don't want to allow factor() to fail --rarely -- I think (and that actually h

Re: [Rd] plot.lm: "Cook's distance" label can overplot point labels

2009-02-20 Thread Michael Dewey
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