Thanks Martin. I had already changed the second argument to getOption.
By the way, per an off list comment from Brian R the bug I was addressing won't affect
anyone using R as shipped; the default decimal separator is "." whatever the region. It
only bit those who set the OutDec option themse
> Ulrike Grömping
> on Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:04:07 +0100 writes:
> Hi Terry, you can use type.convert instead of as.numeric
> for numbers with decimals:
> type.convert(levels(factor(1:6/2)), dec=unlist(options("OutDec")))
> Best, Ulrike
a late and minor remark: If yo
neau
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A problem has been pointed out by a French user of the survival package and I'm
looking
for a pointer.
A problem has been pointed out by a French user of the survival package and I'm looking
for a pointer.
> options(OutDec= ",")
> fit <- survfit(Surv(1:6 /2) ~ 1)
> fit$time
[1] NA 1 NA 2 NA 3
A year or two ago some test cases that broke survfit were presented to me. The heart of
the problem
