On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Re: applying data generating function (Christophe Pallier) > 11. Re: applying data generating function (Spencer Graves) > 12. Frequency ploygon help (Robert W. Baer, Ph.D.) > 13. Re: applying data generating function (Peter Dalgaard) > 14. Re: drawing filled countries according to data using > map('world')? (Ray Brownrigg) > 15. Excel files (Grace Conlon) > 16. drawing filled countries according to data using > map('world')? - follow up (Jens Hainmueller) > 17. Re: Excel files (Robert W. Baer, Ph.D.) > 18. Re: applying data generating function (Spencer Graves) > 19. Re: Excel files (Gabor Grothendieck) > 20. Re: applying data generating function (Gabor Grothendieck) > 21. Re: drawing filled countries according to data using > map('world')? - follow up (Spencer Graves) > 22. Re: applying data generating function (Spencer Graves) > 23. Re: applying data generating function (Gabor Grothendieck) > 24. Re: applying data generating function (Prof Brian Ripley) > 25. Re: Internal NA removal out of Time Series with na.omit.ts() > (Adrian Trapletti) > 26. Re: Internal NA removal out of Time Series with na.omit.ts() > (Prof Brian Ripley) > 27. Re: Internal NA removal out of Time Series with na.omit.ts() > (Adrian Trapletti) > 28. lm - significance disappears (Stuart Leask) > 29. getting the std errors in the lm function (Fulvio Copex) > 30. dsn (Margarida J?lia Rodrigues Igreja) > 31. Re: lm - significance disappears (Prof Brian Ripley) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 13:21:56 +0100 > From: pallier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [R] "Statistiques avec R" > To: r-help <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Shigeru Mase wrote: > > > > > Probably you may be curious about the mysterious author > > of "Statistiques avec R" as well as me. He seems a mathematician. > > I found one more extraordinary work of him. > > > > http://tex.loria.fr/prod-graph/zoonekynd/metapost/metapost.html > > > > He made Metapost (a kind of Metafont software which produces > > ps outputs) a statistical graphics software. Look and have a fun! > > > Vincent Zoonekynd is *not* the creator of Metapost. John D. Hobby is > (cf. http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/hobby/index.html). > > > Vincent Zoonekynd indeed has a ph.D. in maths from the university of > Paris 7 (Jussieu). On his homepage (http://zoonek.free.fr/), he says he > is looking for a job in computer science or bioinformatics (last update: > october 2003). The job market is very gloomy for young scientists in > France. I do not know if he's looking for a job in a foreign country, > but his CV indicates that he speaks English, and has a medium level in > Japanese. > > He wrote the "Statistiques avec R" notes while learning R. I like these > pages very much too, but they are notes taken by a mathematician > learning statistics. In some parts, he has not yet fully grasped all the > concepts (but he indicates this, and he's stressing that this is a work > in progress). This remark does not detract from the quality and the > usefulness of his work. > > Christophe Pallier > http://www.pallier.org > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 14:42:17 +0000 (GMT) > From: Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [R] graphic device MetaPost > To: =?gb2312?q?Jinsong=20Zhao?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: rhelp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, [gb2312] Jinsong Zhao wrote: > > > By default, MetaPost passes all text through TeX. This has the > > advantage of allowing essentially any TeX symbols in titles and labels. > > It give us, who use the multibyte character in ordinary communication, > > much convenience. Gnuplot has fulfilled this function, and it give me a > > deep impression for I could use Chinese character in plots with a minor > > modification to the MetaPost file. > > I don't think so: you would still need character metrics for the fonts you > use to be able to centre them, for example. > > > I hope the R Development Core Team could consider MetaPost as a graphic > > device in future R version. > > We would welcome your contributing such a device. Note though that > there is a public API for graphics devices, and so you could just > contribute the device to CRAN. > > If perchance you meant `I want the R core team to write a metapost device > for me', then you have not grasped how Open Source projects work. > > There are some plans for internationalization of R via UTF-8, but this > will be a considerable amount (man months?) of work, and of very little > benefit to any of the core developers. Volunteers would be welcome. > > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html