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] Numerics behind splineDesign

2012-08-01 Thread peter dalgaard
On Aug 1, 2012, at 18:03 , Bert Gunter wrote: > 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 wo

Re: [Rd] Numerics behind splineDesign

2012-08-01 Thread Nathaniel Smith
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's what they're for, no? Hastie's book is likely to more complete >> on the

Re: [Rd] Numerics behind splineDesign

2012-08-01 Thread peter dalgaard
On Jul 31, 2012, at 15:46 , Bert Gunter wrote: > Well, I would first check the references given in the Help file!. > That's what they're for, no? Hastie's book is likely to more complete > on the algebra, I think. > > You might also be interested in the relevant chapters of Friedman, > Hastie,

Re: [Rd] Numerics behind splineDesign

2012-08-01 Thread Bert Gunter
Well, I would first check the references given in the Help file!. That's what they're for, no? Hastie's book is likely to more complete on the algebra, I think. You might also be interested in the relevant chapters of Friedman, Hastie, et. al "The Elements of Statistical Learning Theory," which m

Re: [Rd] Numerics behind splineDesign

2012-07-31 Thread Ben Bolker
... I took the original poster's word for it that there were no citations in the help files (sorry, that got snipped from my reply because Gmane was complaining ... " I notice that the help pages for these functions don't seem to have any citations.") Now that I took 30 seconds to go back and loo

Re: [Rd] Numerics behind splineDesign

2012-07-31 Thread Ben Bolker
Nathaniel Smith pobox.com> writes: > I find myself needing to be able to reproduce the spline bases that R > computes when using ns() and bs() -- but without using R. Before I go > diving headfirst into the C code in > ./src/library/splines/src/splines.c, are there any simpler references > anyone