[Rd] pdf viewers Re: Evaluating R expressions

2008-01-10 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Rather off topic, while acrobat reader is Adobe and authoritative, there are a lot of other 3rd-party pdf viewers around. xpdf (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html) provides text search functionally and mostly just a single binary so it shouldn't require sysadmin installation or assistance to

[Rd] write.dta (foreign package)

2008-01-10 Thread Edward
Hi, I'd like to request that the 'write.dta' command also save the "var.labels" attributes of the data frame. 'read.dta' can read them, but 'write.dta' doesn't write them back. Thanks Edward McNeil -- Epidemiology Unit Faculty of Medicine Prince of Songkla University Hat Yai THAILAND (\_ _

Re: [Rd] write.dta (foreign package)

2008-01-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Edward wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to request that the 'write.dta' command also save the > "var.labels" attributes of the data frame. > 'read.dta' can read them, but 'write.dta' doesn't write them back. Perhaps you could provide a patch? Very few of us have Stata which would be