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

2008-09-08 Thread John Fox
Dear Brian, > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley > Sent: September-08-08 5:46 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: 'Jaro.Lajovic'; 'R-devel' > Subject: Re: [Rd] Problem with UTF-8 text in

Re: [Rd] Addendum to wishlist bug report #10931 (factanal) (PR#12754)

2008-09-09 Thread John Fox
Dear Ulrich, I'd frankly forgotten about this, but can't see an argument for not making this (or a similar) change. Thanks for reviving the issue. John ------ John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario,

Re: [Rd] weird behavior of drop1() for polr models (MASS)

2008-09-30 Thread John Fox
Note: I'm responding to this message on the r-devel list where it was posted, but this is really a question for r-help. I hope this helps, John ------ John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/

Re: [Rd] weird behavior of drop1() for polr models (MASS)

2008-09-30 Thread John Fox
terest. What is the attraction of "type-III" tests as opposed to "type-II" tests? These questions are sufficiently complicated that they're hard to address in an email. They are addressed in Sec. 8.2 and 10.4 of my Applied Regression text (either edition). Regards, John

[Rd] R CMD INSTALL problem

2008-10-21 Thread John Fox
Dear list members, I've run into a problem with R CMD INSTALL under Windows Vista and R 2.8.0: - snip --- C:\Users\John Fox\workspace>c:\R\R-2.8.0\bin\R CMD INSTALL car installing to '' -- Making package car adding build stamp to DESCRI

Re: [Rd] R CMD INSTALL problem

2008-10-21 Thread John Fox
ction. John > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Deepayan Sarkar > Sent: October-21-08 7:16 PM > To: John Fox > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] R CMD INSTALL problem > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:2

[Rd] possible tcltk event loop problem

2008-11-03 Thread John Fox
Message <- function(message, type=c("note", "error", "warning")){ Sys.sleep(0.01) .message <- MessagesWindow() if (!missing(message)) { tkinsert(.message, "end", paste("\n", message, "\n"

Re: [Rd] possible tcltk event loop problem

2008-11-03 Thread John Fox
Dear Peter, > -Original Message- > From: Peter Dalgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: November-03-08 4:58 PM > To: John Fox > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org; 'Richard M. Heiberger'; 'Erich Neuwirth'; 'Prof > Brian Ripley'; 'Duncan M

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

2009-02-17 Thread John Fox
Dear John, It occurs to me that the title above the graph, "Residuals vs. Leverage," is entirely redundant since the x-axis is labelled "Leverage" and the y-axis "Studentized residuals." Why not use the title above the graph for "Cook's distance countours"? Regards, John > -Original Message

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

2009-02-18 Thread John Fox
Dear John, > -Original Message- > From: John Maindonald [mailto:john.maindon...@anu.edu.au] > Sent: February-18-09 4:57 PM > To: John Fox > Cc: 'Martin Maechler'; r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] plot.lm: "Cook's distance" label can o

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

2009-02-19 Thread John Fox
ohn.maindon...@anu.edu.au] > Sent: February-19-09 2:54 AM > To: Prof Brian Ripley > Cc: John Fox; r-devel@r-project.org; 'Martin Maechler' > Subject: Re: [Rd] plot.lm: "Cook's distance" label can overplot point labels > > Actually, the contours and the s

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

2009-02-20 Thread John Fox
ty of perceptual problems. Regards, John > -Original Message- > From: Thomas Lumley [mailto:tlum...@u.washington.edu] > Sent: February-20-09 4:32 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: 'John Maindonald'; 'Prof Brian Ripley'; r-devel@r-project.org; 'Martin > Maechle

[Rd] wish list: automatic package installation

2009-04-18 Thread John Fox
s (perhaps if an option is set). Regards, John ------ John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] crash after using graphics in Rcmdr (PR#13679)

2009-04-30 Thread John Fox
Dear Neil, I had R 2.8.0 installed on my Mac Book, also with OS X 10.5.6, and was unable to duplicate this problem. I then installed R 2.9.0 and observed the same problem that you did. In both cases, I used the latest version of the Rcmdr package, 1.4-10. I also observed the following: (1) The p

Re: [Rd] Arguments of 'transform'

2006-02-11 Thread John Fox
Dear Peter and Bill, How about changing the current "x argument to something like "x."? That should make the problem that Bill points out less likely and still be backwards compatible with using "x" in the call to transform(). Regards, John -------

Re: [Rd] Arguments of 'transform'

2006-02-11 Thread John Fox
Dear Bill, I didn't realize that "x." would be partially matched by "x" when there was a first (unnamed) argument in the function call -- but I see the error now. Thanks, John ---- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilto

[Rd] Setting --sdi in R 2.3.0 beta for Windows

2006-04-11 Thread John Fox
tates.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 905-525-9140x23604

Re: [Rd] Setting --sdi in R 2.3.0 beta for Windows

2006-04-11 Thread John Fox
Dear Duncan, > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Duncan Murdoch > Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:35 PM > To: John Fox > Cc: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [Rd] Setting --sdi in R 2.3.0 beta for Windows &

[Rd] Package dependencies and imports

2006-09-21 Thread John Fox
there a way around this short of literally copying the unexported functions in rgl that Rcmdr uses? Thanks, John -------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 h

Re: [Rd] Package dependencies and imports

2006-09-21 Thread John Fox
Dear Martin and Kurt, Adding "Enhances: rgl" to the description file did the trick! Thank you, John -------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmast

Re: [Rd] Package dependencies and imports

2006-09-22 Thread John Fox
Dear Brian, John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mail

Re: [Rd] [R] RODBC ERROR on Rcmdr install

2006-10-02 Thread John Fox
is present, or would I have to rely, e.g., on a user-set option? I'm moving this message to the r-devel list. Regards, John John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca

Re: [Rd] how to determine if a function's result is invisible

2006-10-28 Thread John Fox
Dear Duncan, Thanks for this -- it'll enable me to get rid of a list of functions returning invisible output that the Rcmdr maintains. Regards, John John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604

Re: [Rd] Scoping issues

2007-01-07 Thread John Fox
= RcmdrEnv()) getRcmdr <- function(x, mode="any") get(x, envir = RcmdrEnv(), mode = mode, inherits = FALSE) I hope this helps, John John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 90

Re: [Rd] model.matrix() may be misleading for "lme" models

2024-09-21 Thread John Fox
49 p.m., John Fox wrote: Caution: External email. Dear r-devel list members, I'm posting this message here because it concerns the nlme package, which is maintained by R-core. The problem I'm about to describe is somewhere between a bug and a feature request, and so I thought it a good

Re: [Rd] model.matrix() may be misleading for "lme" models

2024-09-22 Thread John Fox
ernal email. Dear Prof. John Fox, В Sat, 21 Sep 2024 12:47:49 -0400 John Fox пишет: NextMethod(formula(object), data=eval(object$call$data), contrasts.arg=object$contrasts) The use of NextMethod worries me a bit. It will work as intended as long as everyone gives

Re: [Rd] model.matrix() may be misleading for "lme" models

2024-09-23 Thread John Fox
t 3:54 PM Ivan Krylov via R-devel wrote: В Sun, 22 Sep 2024 10:23:50 -0400 John Fox пишет: Evaluating object$call$data in the environment of the suggested nlme:::model.matrix.lme function may also not work right. Without an explicit copy of the data, the best environment to evaluate it in

[Rd] model.matrix() may be misleading for "lme" models

2024-09-20 Thread John Fox
attice_0.22-6 - snip - Although this apparently solves the problem for car::Anova(), the problem is likely more general. For example, insight::get_modelmatrix() also reports the wrong model matrix for the "lme" model m above. My suggestion

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