- 1. Re: Data is/are (score: 1)
- Author: "Patrick Connolly" <P.Connolly@hort.cri.nz>
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 12:09:39 +1300 (NZDT)
- According to Bill Venables: It's even more so for those living in New Zealand. Like Bill, I enjoy this stuff which is not often well discussed. Even though it's not quiet a topic for this list, I'd l
- /archives/html/s-news/2000-11/msg00124.html (10,975 bytes)
- 2. Re: [S] import.data without generating factors (score: 1)
- Author: "Patrick Connolly" <P.Connolly@hort.cri.nz>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jul 100 10:55:02 +1200 (NZST)
- According to Prof Brian D Ripley: ..... However, if the aim is to devise a generic approach such that "a" was just one of the names that an object called col.name takes, that approach will not work.
- /archives/html/s-news/2000-07/msg00219.html (10,353 bytes)
- 3. [S] Mars and Venus symbols to use in plotting (score: 1)
- Author: "Patrick Connolly" <P.Connolly@hort.cri.nz>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 100 12:18:34 +1200 (NZST)
- S-PLUS : Copyright (c) 1988, 1996 MathSoft, Inc. S : Copyright AT&T. Version 3.4 Release 1 for Sun SPARC, SunOS 5.3 : 1996 Working data will be in .Data I wish to identify lines on a plot using Mars
- /archives/html/s-news/2000-06/msg00174.html (7,865 bytes)
- 4. Re: [S] Html (Was: Statistical Reports with S+ and SAS) (score: 1)
- Author: "Patrick Connolly" <P.Connolly@hort.cri.nz>
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 100 14:41:53 +1200 (NZST)
- According to Rolf Turner: I know many people whose lives are occupied with a range of subtleties other than the difference between character, date, integer and all the rest of them. Some people want
- /archives/html/s-news/2000-04/msg00039.html (9,293 bytes)
- 5. [S] Scoping rules and Trellis (score: 1)
- Author: "Patrick Connolly" <P.Connolly@hort.cri.nz>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 100 14:53:54 +1200 (NZST)
- It is often necessary to assign objects to frame 1 so that they will be visible to operations on glm objects and the like. My question is a variation on that one. In a Trellis panel function I wish t
- /archives/html/s-news/2000-04/msg00187.html (8,442 bytes)
- 6. [S] Summary: Scoping rules and Trellis (score: 1)
- Author: "Patrick Connolly" <P.Connolly@hort.cri.nz>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 100 09:39:14 +1200 (NZST)
- Thanks to Bill Venables for his help. I had tried assigning my object to frame 0 but it was not available until the function had exited. That wasn't good enough. However once at Bill's suggestion I u
- /archives/html/s-news/2000-04/msg00234.html (9,478 bytes)
- 7. Re: [S] Sex vs. gender. (score: 1)
- Author: "Patrick Connolly" <P.Connolly@hort.cri.nz>
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:10:19 +1300 (NZDT)
- According to Albyn Jones: that The theories are not mutually exclusive. What we have is another example of an amazing ability to make mountains out of molehills. "Gender" is one of the few words in t
- /archives/html/s-news/1999-10/msg00082.html (10,645 bytes)
- 8. [S] Asking the right question (score: 1)
- Author: "Patrick Connolly" <P.Connolly@hort.cri.nz>
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:54:01 +1300 (NZDT)
- Now there's another can of worms! Whose version of "the right question"? As with political rectitude in general, the motivation behind the "pragmatic moves" is laudible, but the other implications of
- /archives/html/s-news/1999-10/msg00105.html (8,404 bytes)
- 9. Re: [S] S-PLUS User Conference Program on web (score: 1)
- Author: "Patrick Connolly" <P.Connolly@hort.cri.nz>
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:20:33 +1200 (NZST)
- According to Douglas Bates: In this case, Microsoft is not the issue. The fonts look terrible using Netscape 4.6 for Solaris also. There is something very odd with the leading. Seems to me to be an i
- /archives/html/s-news/1999-09/msg00218.html (9,066 bytes)
- 10. [S] Summary Interaction terms in plots of gam objects (score: 1)
- Author: "Patrick Connolly" <P.Connolly@hort.cri.nz>
- Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 15:09:15 +1200 (NZST)
- Seems like nobody could tell me how to encourage plot.gam() to deal with interactive factors in a way different from its default. Seems to be several layers before we get to the bit that makes the 3-
- /archives/html/s-news/1999-08/msg00000.html (7,086 bytes)
- 11. Re: [S] Sorting matrix elements, keeping track of original positions (score: 1)
- Author: "Patrick Connolly" <P.Connolly@hort.cri.nz>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 09:36:34 +1200 (NZST)
- According to Kim Elmore: Such willingness is even more amazing since scarcely more than 20% of people have the courtesy to acknowledge what was done for them. It appears to me that the figure is low
- /archives/html/s-news/1999-07/msg00174.html (9,361 bytes)
- 12. Re: [S] Summarizing responses: Summary (score: 1)
- Author: "Patrick Connolly" <P.Connolly@hort.cri.nz>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 11:35:25 +1200 (NZST)
- Quite a number of people agreed with the basic thrust of my posting which was my admiration of the qualities of the people who supply high quality assistance despite the often ungratefulness of those
- /archives/html/s-news/1999-07/msg00193.html (10,408 bytes)
- 13. [S] Interaction terms in plots of gam objects? (score: 1)
- Author: "Patrick Connolly" <P.Connolly@hort.cri.nz>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 17:04:47 +1200 (NZST)
- If an interaction term is used in a gam, the plot of the interaction term can at times obscure interesing information. If plot.gam() could be persuaded to do a contour plot instead, I could see what'
- /archives/html/s-news/1999-07/msg00258.html (7,369 bytes)
- 14. Re: [S] Summary: Remove column(s) from data frame? (score: 1)
- Author: "Patrick Connolly" <P.Connolly@hort.cri.nz>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 08:59:14 +1200 (NZST)
- According to David Parkhurst: In fact, the comma is not necessary if Dat is a data frame but it might be advisable to be consistent with other procedures. best Patrick -- This message was distributed
- /archives/html/s-news/1999-06/msg00202.html (8,348 bytes)
- 15. Re: [S] Does the new version of S-Plus fix num acc. and RNG problems? (score: 1)
- Author: "Patrick Connolly" <P.Connolly@hort.cri.nz>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 09:27:18 +3600 (NZST)
- According to Prof Brian D Ripley: Let's be fair. It was "... an academic user like me ..." which I took to be referring to a small group that makes no claim to be universal. And to be fair, all other
- /archives/html/s-news/1999-06/msg00250.html (9,015 bytes)
- 16. [S] Trellis axis labs (score: 1)
- Author: "Patrick Connolly" <P.Connolly@hort.cri.nz>
- Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 14:29:02 +1200 (NZST)
- Even using help.start I can't figure out where I might change the position of xlab and ylab in Trellis plots. It's simple in "regular" plots to use mtext and specify line = 1.5 (say). I know I can ch
- /archives/html/s-news/1999-05/msg00130.html (7,513 bytes)
- 17. Re: [S] sign mail to s-news, please (score: 1)
- Author: "Patrick Connolly" <P.Connolly@hort.cri.nz>
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:22:59 +1200 (NZST)
- According to Timothy J. Wade: As someone once said: Don't attribute to malice what could be attributed to ignorance. The fact that others could be interested in the same question is an idea that just
- /archives/html/s-news/1999-04/msg00051.html (10,294 bytes)
- 18. Re: [S] Project Management in S+ (score: 1)
- Author: "Patrick Connolly" <P.Connolly@hort.cri.nz>
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 10:11:38 +1200 (NZST)
- According to devon.mccormick@bankerstrust.com: More than likely, but it wouldn't achieve anything we can't already do with Emacs and S-mode. (I'm told ESS is even better!!) That will automatically ha
- /archives/html/s-news/1999-04/msg00133.html (10,154 bytes)
- 19. Re: [S] change values in a data frame conditionally (score: 1)
- Author: .edu>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 11:51:50 +1300 (NZDT)
- According to Randi Chen: if data is your data frame, data$x2[data$id == 1 & data$x1 == 1] <- 1 best Patrick -- This message was distributed by s-news@wubios.wustl.edu. To unsubscribe send e-mail to s
- /archives/html/s-news/1999-03/msg00159.html (7,854 bytes)
- 20. Re: [S] class, oldClass, S 4, S+ 5 (score: 1)
- Author: c.uk>
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 10:07:12 +1300 (NZDT)
- According to Frank E Harrell Jr: Sounds like a good idea to me. Am I correct in thinking that it would also avoid all the convertOldLibrary difficulties? If so, is it too late to make such a change?
- /archives/html/s-news/1999-03/msg00171.html (9,179 bytes)
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