It is standard for install.packages to download packages into a temporary
directory before actually installing them. That message has been there for many
many years every time you install a contributed package.
You have not provided a complete copy of the errors that were generated... I am
cert
Heinz,
I can't tell you how much I appreciated your email. I firmly believe that the
rules and norms of the R-help mailing list need to be respected and followed.
Nevertheless, I feared that if the comments were left unquestioned people who
are not familiar with BMI, its strengths weakness, and
Calum,
Thanks for your thoughts. As mentioned, I fixed the problem. I actually was
using require() and also tried library() but the problem was elsewhere as my R
installation and startup seemed to no longer have variables set properly to
find packages remotely or locally.
And yes, I made
I can't help but feel that a discussion on the merit of BMI is a
digression, from the OP's question.
In addition, to being of no relevance to "R Programming".
In relation to Richard's technical comments:
As per my previous post, it is possible to get *relative" measures.
(Assuming the images are n
This discussion is completely offr topic here. Please take it elsewhere.
Bert Gunter
"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 1:42 PM Sorkin, Joh
Colleagues,
BMI has is failures, but it has demonstrated utility. BMI predicts multiple
outcome measures including cardiovascular disease and mortality. Don't through
out a useful metric because it is not the perfect metric.
As to why BMI is computed as weight/height^2, it can be shown that di
I must agree with the criticism of BMI as a diagnostic index. It is
easy to tell if a person is - ahem - wide and not very high with a
single glance. These elementary parameters can easily be deduced from
an image of said person. However, it does not convey that essential
ratio of muscle to - ahem
I don't use R.app.
And as I wrote later, there are a number of .Rhistory so it depends
on where you start R/RStudio from.
el
On 2021-03-01 22:29 , David Carlson wrote:
> On the Mac there can be 2 files. The R Studio uses .Rhistory, but Rapp
> uses .Rapp.history.
>
> David L Carlson
>
> On Su
On the Mac there can be 2 files. The R Studio uses .Rhistory, but Rapp
uses .Rapp.history.
David L Carlson
On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 9:06 AM Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
> On the Mac it is ~/.Rhistory
>
> el
>
> On 2021-02-28 15:39 , Mahmood Naderan-Tahan wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > May I know where is
Hello all,
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You can submit an abstract for a regular talk, an elevator pitch (that
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"Body Mass Index" is a rather bizarre thing:body.mass.in.kg / height.in.m^2I
have never been able to find any biologicalor physical meaning for this. Yet
cliniciansare solemnly advised to measure the weight tothe nearest 0.1kg and
the height to thenearest 0.1cm.How do you propose to determine t
"Body Mass Index" is a rather bizarre thing:
body.mass.in.kg / height.in.m^2
I have never been able to find any biological
or physical meaning for this. Yet clinicians
are solemnly advised to measure the weight to
the nearest 0.1kg and the height to the
nearest 0.1cm.
How do you propose to determ
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