[Rd] Factor correlations in factanal

Dear R-devel list members, Ben Fairbank draw it to my attention that factanal() (in the stats package) doesn't report factor correlations for oblique rotations. Looking at the source, I see that factanal also doesn't save the factor-transformation (rotation) matrix from which these correlations ca

[Rd] Internationalization of the Rcmdr package

in the standard Tk dialogs (e.g., tk_getOpenFile and tk_messageBox via tkgetOpenFile() and tkmessageBox() in the tcltk package) is not translated, at least under Windows XP, where I've tested. I've seen translated buttons in Tk dialogs under Linux, so perhaps this is a Windows-specific probl

[Rd] Testing for English locale

Dear r-devel list members, Is there a platform-independent way to test whether R is running in an English locale? Thanks, John John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca

[Rd] Internationalization questions

t;^en", LC_CTYPE, ignore.case=TRUE)) > 0 } (adapting and extending a suggestion by Simon Urbanek) which checks not just the locale but also for an environment variable named LANGUAGE. Is this sufficient? Any help would be appreciated. John

Re: [Rd] Internationalization questions

Dear Brian, > -Original Message- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 août 2005 01:47 > To: John Fox > Cc: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [Rd] Internationalization questions > > On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, John Fox wrote: > &g

Re: [Rd] Internationalization questions

Dear Brian, > -Original Message- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 8:02 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: RE: [Rd] Internationalization questions > > On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, John Fox

Re: [Rd] TCITex and R

Dear Mark, I use Scientific Word as a Latex front end. I've also installed fptex and use that to build R packages. The two have coexisted on my computers for several years without problems. I hope this helps, John John Fox Department of Sociology McM

Re: [Rd] plot(): new behavior in R-2.2.0 alpha

erplot. Finally, your remarks about balanced data are cogent and suggest going with 1:3 in this case (since R_i vs. i is pretty redundant with the QQ plot). Regards, John -------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905

Re: [Rd] plot(): new behavior in R-2.2.0 alpha

Dear John, > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Maindonald > Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 1:09 AM > To: Martin Maechler > Cc: Werner Stahel; R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch; John Fox > Subject: Re: [Rd] plot

Re: [Rd] plot(): new behavior in R-2.2.0 alpha

Dear Martin, > -Original Message- > From: Martin Maechler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:56 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: 'Martin Maechler'; 'Werner Stahel'; 'John Maindonald'; > R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch >

[Rd] Rprofile not executed in R 2.2.0 alpha for Windows

es.1252 Search Path: .GlobalEnv, package:methods, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, Autoloads, package:base -------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-

Re: [Rd] plot(): new behavior in R-2.2.0 alpha

Dear Werner, > -Original Message- > From: Werner Stahel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 2:37 AM > To: Martin Maechler > Cc: R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch; John Maindonald; Werner > Stahel; John Fox > Subject: Re: plot(): new beha

Re: [Rd] automatically adding smooth to plot:options("plot.add.smooth")

he option to include > > Wst> smoothers, not only as an argument to plot.lm, but even > > Wst> as an option(). I have heared of the intense > > Wst> discussions about options(). With Martin, we arrived > > Wst> at the conclusion that options() shoul

Re: [Rd] plot, spineplot, boxplot in R 2.2.0

rientation of the axes but the nature of the variables. Regards, John -------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -Ori

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations (was: R, Wine, and multi-threadedness)

cess is perhaps rightly done > by > individuals meeting narrowly focused, local requirements. > > I should note, that I am not prospective GUI user, but a happy ESS > user. > I simply thought that I would try to provoke some discussion on this > point, since I jumped into this thr

Re: [Rd] Recursive dependencies(Rcmdr)

hen I have some time, but I believe that mtvnorm is there just for multcomp, and its inclusion probably dates to a period before dependencies were resolved by install.packages(). Thanks for bringing this to my attention. John -------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster

[Rd] When, where, and how to report bugs [was Rcmdr for Tiger Mac OS not running (PR#8350)]

r package is not a bug in R. (It may or may not be a bug in the Rcmdr package.) Moreover, you've already posted this problem to the r-help mailing list, and Rob Goedman has offered to help you. Finally, this bug report has no information in it. Regards, John ---- Jo

[Rd] Using the lazy data mechanism

kage:svIO, package:R2HTML, package:svMisc, package:svSocket, package:svIDE, package:tcltk, Autoloads, package:base - snip - Thanks, John ---- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http:/

[Rd] Building a custom Windows installer

adding MD5 checksums perl JRins.pl R-2.11.1 c:/temp/R-2.11.1 1 1 0 R-core "/iscc" R.iss > myR.log /iscc: not found make: *** [myR] Error 127 --- snip --- Any help would be appreciated. John John Fox Senator William McMaster Profess

Re: [Rd] Building a custom Windows installer

Dear Brian, > -Original Message- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk] > Sent: July-14-10 3:15 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] Building a custom Windows installer > > John, > > It is not clear to me w

[Rd] scoping/non-standard evaluation issue

394e-03 6.909e-02-3.971e-03-8.595e-03 Population Year 1.164e+00-1.911e+00 - snip --- The problem with f1() is that it will clobber a variable named .subs in the global environment; the problem with f2() is that .subs can be masked by a variable in t

Re: [Rd] scoping/non-standard evaluation issue

Dear all, A small correction: I had a stray line in my f2(), env <- new.env(parent=.GlobalEnv) left over from yet another attempt; it can simply be removed. Sorry for the confusion, John ---- John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Soc

Re: [Rd] scoping/non-standard evaluation issue

Dear Peter, I played around a bit with your suggestion but wasn't able to get it to work. Thanks for this. John John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canad

Re: [Rd] scoping/non-standard evaluation issue

Dear Gabor, I used str() to look at the two objects but missed the difference that you found. What I didn't quite understand was why one model worked but not the other when both were defined at the command prompt in the global environment. Thanks, John Joh

Re: [Rd] scoping/non-standard evaluation issue

lot of code. It would seem desirable, though, for mod.1 and mod.2 to behave the same. Best, John > -Original Message- > From: peter dalgaard [mailto:pda...@gmail.com] > Sent: January-05-11 10:51 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: 'Gabor Grothendieck'; 'Sanford Weisbe

Re: [Rd] Problem with confint function

rvals on the likelihood is more computationally intensive but should be more accurate. I hope this helps, John John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Re: [Rd] coxph and drop1

values isn't supplied. Best, John -------- John Fox Sen. William McMaster Prof. of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:42:04 -0500 Terry Th

Re: [Rd] Standardized Pearson residuals

or Statistics, Copenhagen Business > >> School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > >> Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd@cbs.dk Priv: > >> pda...@gmail.com > > > >> __ > >> R-devel@r-pro

[Rd] testing a Windows custom installer

installed, but that's inconvenient (and, as R proliferates will, I hope, become impossible!). Is there a better approach? Thanks, John -------- John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton,

Re: [Rd] testing a Windows custom installer

h [mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com] > Sent: July-20-11 10:57 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: R-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] testing a Windows custom installer > > On 20/07/2011 10:29 AM, John Fox wrote: > > Dear R-devel list members, > > > > For several years, I&#x

Re: [Rd] RFC: Declaring "foo.bar" as nonS3method() ?!

be treated as a regular R > > function. > > > I would very much like such a feature in R, and for that reason, > > I'm cross posting this (as one of the famous exceptions that > > accompany real-life rules!!) to R-devel. > > and actually I di

Re: [Rd] RFC: Declaring "foo.bar" as nonS3method() ?!

>> method, it might be masked by the one in effects. > >> > >> Duncan Murdoch > >> > >>> > >>> Hadley > >>> > >>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 6:52 AM, Kurt Hornik > wrote: > >&g

Re: [Rd] Graphical User Interface (GUI)

< http://www.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2007-3.pdf > and the Journal of Statistical Software <http://www.jstatsoft.org/v49/i07>. Best, John ------- John Fox, Professor McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socs

Re: [Rd] On read.csv and write.csv

cause the column names to be misaligned. As others have pointed out, .csv files are meant as a sort of least-common-denominator of data exchange, and so following the standard is probably a good idea. Best, John John Fox, Professor Emeritus McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Re: [Rd] Strange Behavior in RNG

I hope this helps, John -- John Fox, Professor Emeritus McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: https://www.john-fox.ca/ -- On 2024-08-16 8:45 p.m., Jiefei Wang wrote: Caution: External email. Hi, I just observed a strange behavior in R. The rnorm function does not give me the n

Re: [Rd] legitimate use of :::

kage unexported utility > functions > that don't pass Uwe's iff test, but I, as maintainer, > want to use in my package. > > Cases in point: in heplots, I had used stats:::Pillai, stats:::Wilks, > stats:::Roy and stats:::LH for calculation in one of my functions. >

Re: [Rd] legitimate use of :::

Dear Peter, > -Original Message- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of peter dalgaard > Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 4:45 PM > To: Michael Friendly > Cc: R-devel; Uwe Ligges > Subject: Re: [Rd] legitimate use of ::: > > > On Aug 2

Re: [Rd] legitimate use of :::

Dear Gray, On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 19:41:58 -0500 Gray wrote: > Peter Meilstrup: (05:01PM on Thu, Aug 22) > >One most often encounters namespace conflicts at the user level, when > >loading two packages that have no logical connection other than both > >bearing on your problem of the moment. > > Un

Re: [Rd] legitimate use of :::

Dear Duncan, > -Original Message- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Duncan Murdoch > Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 2:24 PM > To: Benjamin Hofner > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] legitimate use of ::: > > On 26/08/20

Re: [Rd] declaring package dependencies

Dear Duncan and Michael, > -Original Message- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Duncan Murdoch > Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 9:51 AM > To: Michael Friendly > Cc: r-devel > Subject: Re: [Rd] declaring package dependencies > >

Re: [Rd] strange behavior for RcmdrPlugin.qual

ge...@uhd.edu<mailto:hodge...@uhd.edu> > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > __ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel John Fox McMaster University Hamilton, Onta

[Rd] problem with update.packages() in R-Devel (3.2.0) on Windows

.packages("zoo") trying URL 'http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/bin/windows/contrib/3.2/zoo_1.7-11.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 878614 bytes (858 KB) opened URL downloaded 858 KB package 'zoo' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Th

Re: [Rd] problem with update.packages() in R-Devel (3.2.0) on Windows

Dear Dan and Henrik, Yes -- thanks. I discovered that earlier today. Best, John > -Original Message- > From: R-devel [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Dan > Tenenbaum > Sent: January-27-15 1:25 PM > To: Henrik Bengtsson > Cc: John Fox; R-devel

Re: [Rd] parallel::mclapply() dummy function on Windows?

Dear Tim, > -Original Message- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of Tim Triche, Jr. > Sent: October-07-11 3:05 PM > To: Prof Brian Ripley > Cc: r-devel > Subject: Re: [Rd] parallel::mclapply() dummy function on Windows? > > On Thu, Oc

Re: [Rd] parallel::mclapply() dummy function on Windows?

ows") base::lapply else parallel::mclapply in his package? Best, John > -Original Message- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of Martin Morgan > Sent: October-08-11 8:16 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: ttri...@usc.edu; &#x

Re: [Rd] parallel::mclapply() dummy function on Windows?

Dear Brian, > -Original Message- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk] > Sent: October-08-11 9:57 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: 'Martin Morgan'; ttri...@usc.edu; 'r-devel' > Subject: RE: [Rd] parallel::mclapply() dummy function on Wind

Re: [Rd] How to deal with package conflicts

Therneau > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org; John Fox; Duncan Murdoch > Subject: Re: [Rd] How to deal with package conflicts > > On 11/25/2011 9:10 AM, Terry Therneau wrote: > > The ridge() function was put into the survival package as a simple > > example of what a user

Re: [Rd] How to deal with package conflicts

the survey package under Suggests. Best, John > -Original Message- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of John Fox > Sent: November-25-11 11:47 AM > To: 'Michael Friendly' > Cc: 'Terry Therneau'; r-dev

Re: [Rd] need gui matrix editor: does R Core team have advice on how?

ster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/installation-notes.html>. I hope this helps, John -------- John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -Original

[Rd] using predict() with poly(x, raw=TRUE)

maintaining a local version of poly(), but why should it not be possible to get predictions under these circumstances? Best, John John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology Mc

[Rd] globalVariables()

ommander.done' is in the call to globalVariables(): - snip * checking R code for possible problems ... NOTE Commander: no visible binding for '<<-' assignment to '.commander.done' (C:/Users/John Fox/workspace/Rcmdr/R/commander.R:653) clos

Re: [Rd] globalVariables()

bals) globals <- sub(" *$", "", globals) whichentries <- which(grepl(":", globals)) if (length(whichentries > 1)) globals <- globals[-whichentries] globals <- gsub(".* ", "", globals) globals <- unique(globals) cmd <- paste(&

Re: [Rd] if(--as-cran)?

Dear all, I'd like to second this fairly simple request. I currently enclosed some of the examples in the effects package in \donttest{} blocks to satisfy the CRAN timing requirements for examples. It would be nice to have something like a \donttestcran{} block that suppresses the tests when --as-

Re: [Rd] contr.sum() and contrast names

Hi Milan, Take a look at the contr.Sum() and contr.Treatment() functions in the car package. (I recall, BTW, the sometimes acrimonious previous discussion of this issue.) Best, John John Fox Sen. William McMaster Prof. of Social Statistics

Re: [Rd] contr.sum() and contrast names

Hi Milan, On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:25:56 +0100 Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > Le samedi 27 octobre 2012 à 10:44 -0400, John Fox a écrit : > > Hi Milan, > > > > Take a look at the contr.Sum() and contr.Treatment() functions in the > > car package. > Yeah, this is the

Re: [Rd] Declaring/importing non-exported functions [car] in another package

t; > Questions: > > 1. Why doesn't this work? > > I think you misread the manual. It is talking about ways to access functions > other than by using importFrom. You can use car:::df.terms in your functions. > > > 2. Is my only alternative to

Re: [Rd] Regression stars

Dear Frank, I'd like to second your implicit motion to make options(show.signif.stars=FALSE) the default. Thanks for raising this point. John On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 05:32:04 -0800 (PST) Frank Harrell wrote: > Today's GNU R tutorial in > http://how-to.linuxcareer.com/a-quick-gnu-r-tutorial-to-sta

Re: [Rd] Private environments and/or assignInMyNamespace

n() > instead of errorCondition(), so that the dialog is left as-is. To tell > the user that something is wrong, you can use Message(), or show an > error dialog or a label in the original dialog right before calling > return(). This is the simplest solution and it does not require any >

Re: [Rd] nobs() with glm(family="poisson")

Dear Milan and Steven, At the risk of muddying the water further, I think that the potential confusion here is that Poisson GLMs are applied in two formally equivalent but substantively different situations: (1) where the counts are cells in a contingency table, in which case the Poisson GLM is

Re: [Rd] package file permissions problem R 3.0.0/Windows OS

, which is first on my path. I don't have Cygwin installed on this machine independently of Rtools. What's curious to me is that I'm seeing the problem on two different Windows system but, AFAIK, no one else has experienced a similar problem. Thanks for your help, John > >

Re: [Rd] package file permissions problem R 3.0.0/Windows OS

is unique to me, I can certainly work around it. I know that it's hard to diagnose this kind of problem long-distance via email. Best, John On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:19:21 +0100 Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On 15/04/2013 14:11, John Fox wrote: > > Dear Brian, > > > > On Mon,

[Rd] R 2.10.0 devel package check error

, Autoloads, package:base - snip --- The offending package, Rcmdr 2.5-0, is available on R-Forge. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, John -- John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: so

Re: [Rd] R 2.10.0 devel package check error

u for the information (and the admonishment). John > -Original Message- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk] > Sent: August-27-09 11:53 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] R 2.10.0 devel package check error > >

Re: [Rd] Display image in tcl/tk information window: path to file ?

(package="Rcmdr")[1], "etc"). I hope this helps, John ---------- John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -Original Message- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org

[Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies

nder whether I've missed something. Is there a way for me to arrange the Rcmdr package dependencies so that only the necessary packages (those currently listed under both "depends" and "suggests" and the packages on which they "depend") are installed along

Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies

Dear Uwe, > -Original Message- > From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de] > Sent: September-22-09 2:17 PM > To: John Fox > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies > > > > John Fox wrote: > > De

Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies

and avoid the recursive installation of suggested packages. Maybe the idea is a good one after all. Thank you, John > -Original Message- > From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendi...@gmail.com] > Sent: September-22-09 2:32 PM > To: John Fox > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org >

Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies

separate RcmdrInstall package or advise users to install the Rcmdr itself with dep=TRUE. Best, John > -Original Message- > From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendi...@gmail.com] > Sent: September-22-09 3:09 PM > To: John Fox > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re:

Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies

Dear Seth, > -Original Message- > From: Seth Falcon [mailto:s...@userprimary.net] > Sent: September-22-09 5:13 PM > To: Uwe Ligges > Cc: John Fox; r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies > > * On 2009-09-22 at 20:16 +0200 Uwe Ligges wr

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

Dear Alexios and Duncan, I think that there's one more thing to be said in favour of chm help, and that's that its format is familiar to Windows users. I've been using html help on Windows myself for a long time, but before R 2.10.0 recommended chm help to new Windows users of R. That said, I expe

Re: [Rd] Why is there no c.factor?

Dear Thomas and Hadley, I'd propose the following: If the sets of levels of all arguments are the same, then c.factor() would return a factor with the common set of levels; if the sets of levels differ, then, as Hadley suggests, the level-set of the result would be the union of sets of levels of t

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

hat works correctly and that I don't know how to rewrite to get rid of the notes -- not to say that it would necessarily be impossible to do so. Eliminating all packages that produce R CMD check notes from CRAN is not a good idea, in my opinion. Best, John -------

Re: [Rd] a side note to the Rcmdr issue

Dear Erin, Unlike in previous version of R for Windows, the package list is alphabetized with uppercase letters preceding lowercase letters. Thus look under uppercase "R" and then lowercase "c". Regards, John -------- John Fox Senator William McMa

Re: [Rd] problem with Rcmdr Plugins

he same is true of tseries, abind, and MASS. I hope this helps, John -------- John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -Original Messag

[Rd] Non-unique column names in data frames

figure that there must be some rationale for this difference, but I can't think of what it might be. Any thoughts? Regards, John John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/

[Rd] Behaviour of read.table with empty columns

e(A=c("", "", "")) A 1 2 3 works as I would have expected. A work-around for me was > DF[is.na(DF)] <- "" > DF V1 V2 V3 1 a 2 But, as I said, I found the behaviour of read.table() puzzling. All this is with R 2.5.0 on

Re: [Rd] Behaviour of read.table with empty columns

Dear Brian (and Gabor), Thanks -- that makes sense. John John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -Origi

Re: [Rd] section needed in FAQ - Using R (PR#9698)

Dear Peter and Ray, I think that Ray's problem finding apropos is that "apropos" has one "p." Interestingly, help.search("appropos") (as suggested by Peter) is able to accommodate the spelling error. Regards, John -------- John Fox

Re: [Rd] section needed in FAQ - Using R (PR#9698)

Dear, My spelling correction was poorly phrased, since there are actually two p's in "apropos," but there aren't two adjacent p's. I agree that a reference to apropos on the help page for help is a good idea. Regards, John ---- John Fox

Re: [Rd] Problems with R 2.5.0 (PR#9708)

27;t a bug in R and so really shouldn't have been filed as a bug report. Regards, John -------- John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.m

[Rd] Warning under R 2.6.0: Rd files with unknown encoding

, residuals.Rd is similar to the other .Rd files in the package. At least for the time being, I won't reproduce residuals.Rd here in the interest of brevity. Any help would be appreciated. John John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, On

Re: [Rd] Warning under R 2.6.0: Rd files with unknown encoding

Dear Brian, > -Original Message- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 7:45 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] Warning under R 2.6.0: Rd files with > unknown encoding > > On Tue,

Re: [Rd] misbehaviour of some tk windows, R 2.6.0 on SUSE 10.1?

Dear Peter and David, For what it's worth, I observe this behaviour after upgrading to R 2.6.0 under Ubuntu 7.04. When David previously reported the problem to me, I tested on R 2.5.1 (again with Ubuntu 7.04) and did not observe the problem. Regards, John > -Original Message- > From: [E

Re: [Rd] slow tcl/tk

I suspect, of its complexity. Since I'd like to insure that the Rcmdr works reasonably well under Linux systems, it would help to know the source of the problem. Thanks, John -------- John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario

Re: [Rd] slow tcl/tk

Dear Peter, > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Dalgaard > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:54 AM > To: Adrian Dusa > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] slow tcl/tk > > Adrian Dusa wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > Build

Re: [Rd] slow tcl/tk

Dear Peter, Thank you for pursuing this. Regards, John > -Original Message- > From: Peter Dalgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 12:01 PM > To: John Fox > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org; 'Adrian Dusa' > Subject: Re: [Rd] slow tc

Re: [Rd] Saving Graphics File as .ps or .pdf (PR#10403)

Dear Martin, Jari, et al., Another relevant point (which I haven't seen in this discussion -- perhaps I missed it) is that one can read the CHANGES and NEWS files on CRAN without downloading or installing R-patched. Regards, John > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailt

[Rd] Using Fortran 95 in an R package?

in a package? For example, I see that Rtools for Windows now include the gfortran compiler. (I know that this question has come up before, but not, as far as I can see, in the last year.) Thanks, John John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Ham

Re: [Rd] Using Fortran 95 in an R package?

Dear Brian, Thank you for this. John > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley > Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 1:05 PM > To: John Fox > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] Using Fortr

Re: [Rd] Wishlist- Windows Gui (PR#10589)

issue is whether we want the GUI to edit the Rprofile > (probably not) or add yet another configuration file that would be > overridden (probably not) by or override (probably not either) the > hand-written Rprofile files > > -p > > Regards, > > John

Re: [Rd] Wishlist- Windows Gui (PR#10589)

?Startup). Of course, you would adjust CRAN to point to a CRAN mirror near you. BTW, this isn't really a bug report, is it? Regards, John -------- John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 h

[Rd] pseudo dataframes with RODBC

sted them (at various times) only with PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MS/Access under Windows, but I don't see why they shouldn't work generally. Regards, John John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ont

Re: [Rd] argument order for Math2 group functions in R 2.6.x (PR#10679)

and what I'm > used to getting using earlier versions.) Similar things happen with > round(). > > I haven't yet had the opportunity to investigate whether I'd see the > same > behavior on other platforms. > > Best wishes, > Ben > > _______

Re: [Rd] argument order for Math2 group functions in R 2.6.x (PR#10683)

Dear Brian, Are there many primitives that take more than one argument? I see, for example, that round() is another. Might it not be a good idea to provide a warning in the help file(s) that arguments must be supplied in the correct order? Regards, John > -Original Message- > From: [EM

Re: [Rd] Aliasing a function

Dear Hadley, Why not just f <- g ? Regards, John ---- John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL

[Rd] package building problem under Windows Vista

people (e.g., my students) buying new Windows machines will be getting it. Although I've read section 2.24 of the R for Windows FAQ, it's quite possible that I've missed something of relevance there. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, John

Re: [Rd] package building problem under Windows Vista

0.3-0.tar.gz' d:\R-packages> snip - Thank you for the suggestion, John > -----Original Message- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: April-19-08 8:53 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: 'R-devel' > Subject: Re: [Rd] packa

Re: [Rd] package building problem under Windows Vista

Dear Gabor, > -Original Message- > From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: April-19-08 9:10 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: R-devel > Subject: Re: [Rd] package building problem under Windows Vista > > Note that CRAN is also having a problem with the p

Re: [Rd] RFC: What should ?foo do?

Dear all, Why not leave ? more-or-less as it is (at least for ?foo) and add arguments to help() for other kinds of searches? Perhaps the kind of search that help() does by default could be set as an option. Regards, John -- John Fox, Professor Department of

[Rd] Problem with UTF-8 text in the Rcmdr package

to turn up anything that seemed relevant. Frankly, however, my understanding of how various character sets are handled is only partial. Any help would be appreciated. John ---------- John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web:

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