Re: [R] reference on contr.helmert and typo on its help page.

2009-11-10 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 19:31 -0600, Peng Yu wrote: > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 7:32 PM, John Fox wrote: > > Dear Peng, > > > > I'm tempted to try to get an entry in the fortunes package but will instead > > try to answer your questions directly: > > I can not install 'fortunes'. What are the fortunes

Re: [R] reference on contr.helmert and typo on its help page.

2009-11-09 Thread Peng Yu
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 7:32 PM, John Fox wrote: > Dear Peng, > > I'm tempted to try to get an entry in the fortunes package but will instead > try to answer your questions directly: I can not install 'fortunes'. What are the fortunes packages about? > install.packages("fortunes", repos="http://R-

Re: [R] reference on contr.helmert and typo on its help page.

2009-11-08 Thread John Fox
7:41 PM > To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R] reference on contr.helmert and typo on its help page. > > Dear John, > > I did read Section 9.1.2 and various other textbooks before posting my > questions. But each reference uses slightly different notations and > ter

Re: [R] reference on contr.helmert and typo on its help page.

2009-11-08 Thread Peng Yu
ox > > >> -Original Message- >> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > On >> Behalf Of Peng Yu >> Sent: November-08-09 4:52 PM >> To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch >> Subject: Re: [R] reference on contr.helmert and typo

Re: [R] reference on contr.helmert and typo on its help page.

2009-11-08 Thread John Fox
ect.org] On > Behalf Of Peng Yu > Sent: November-08-09 4:52 PM > To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R] reference on contr.helmert and typo on its help page. > > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Peter Dalgaard > wrote: > > Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > >>

Re: [R] reference on contr.helmert and typo on its help page.

2009-11-08 Thread Peng Yu
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> >> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Peng Yu wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Duncan Murdoch >>> wrote: On 08/11/2009 11:03 AM, Peng Yu wrote: > > I'm wondering which textbook di

Re: [R] reference on contr.helmert and typo on its help page.

2009-11-08 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Peng Yu wrote: On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 08/11/2009 11:03 AM, Peng Yu wrote: I'm wondering which textbook discussed the various contrast matrices mentioned in the help page of 'contr.helmert'. Could so

Re: [R] reference on contr.helmert and typo on its help page.

2009-11-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Peng Yu wrote: > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> On 08/11/2009 11:03 AM, Peng Yu wrote: >>> >>> I'm wondering which textbook discussed the various contrast matrices >>> mentioned in the help page of 'contr.helmert'. Could somebody let me

Re: [R] reference on contr.helmert and typo on its help page.

2009-11-08 Thread Peng Yu
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 08/11/2009 11:03 AM, Peng Yu wrote: >> >> I'm wondering which textbook discussed the various contrast matrices >> mentioned in the help page of 'contr.helmert'. Could somebody let me >> know? > > Doesn't the reference on that page discuss

Re: [R] reference on contr.helmert and typo on its help page.

2009-11-08 Thread David Winsemius
On Nov 8, 2009, at 11:03 AM, Peng Yu wrote: I'm wondering which textbook discussed the various contrast matrices mentioned in the help page of 'contr.helmert'. Could somebody let me know? My version of "Modern Applied Statistics in S" (aka MASS) deals with it in enough detail for a person

[R] reference on contr.helmert and typo on its help page.

2009-11-08 Thread Peng Yu
I'm wondering which textbook discussed the various contrast matrices mentioned in the help page of 'contr.helmert'. Could somebody let me know? BTW, in R version 2.9.1, there is a typo on the help page of 'contr.helmert' ('cont.helmert' should be 'contr.helmert').