Someone sent me a bug report for survival2.44.1-1 that involves a model with
both cluster
and offset. It turns out to be a 3 part issue with [.terms and my own
untangle.specials
routine. I've spent an evening sorting out the details.
1. The delete.response() function doesn't remove the response from the
dataClasses
attribute, which leads to a later failure in [.terms for no-response models.
Is there a
reason for this, or can I make my patch include this oversight as well?
2. [.terms messes up predvars and dataClasses if the model has an offset term
in it.
(In select cases 1 and 2 can cancel out and give the correct dataClasses
attribute.)
3. The survival::untangle.specials routine assumed that you can use the same
subscripting for the terms of a model and the term() object itself, which turns
out to be
almost always true, but only almost.
The failure turns out to have probably been there since the Splus days,
which tells one
just how often such a model is used. (One of two edge case bugs sent to me in
the first
days after I pushed it to CRAN: a new release seems to attact them.) I'm
willing to put
together a patch, but given the rarity of these would folks prefer to wait
until after the
April release? I'm fine with that. I need the answer to 1 though.
Terry T.
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