Re: [Rd] Defining a method in two packages

2010-03-09 Thread Kevin Coombes
Wouldn't it make sense to simply create a "ranef" package whose only role in the universe is to create the generic function that lme4, coxme, and anyone else who needs it could just import, without getting tons of additional and (depending on the application) irrelevant code? Best, Kevin U

Re: [Rd] unable to compile Recommended packages

2010-03-09 Thread Jens Elkner
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:14:50PM -0500, Alex Bryant wrote: > Thank you for your responses. It turns out the problem was my version of > 'tar' on solaris. I downloaded the latest Gnu tar and the install completed > successfully. Who would of know ;) ... > > SunOS 5.10 Generic_118822-25 s

Re: [Rd] unable to compile Recommended packages

2010-03-09 Thread Alex Bryant
Thank you for your responses. It turns out the problem was my version of 'tar' on solaris. I downloaded the latest Gnu tar and the install completed successfully. Who would of know ;) Thanks again, Alex -Original Message- From: dmba...@gmail.com [mailto:dmba...@gmail.com] On Behalf O

Re: [Rd] unable to compile Recommended packages

2010-03-09 Thread Douglas Bates
Did you run $RHOME/src/tools/rsync-recommended to obtain the most recent versions of the recommended packages before trying to compile them? On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Alex Bryant wrote: > Hi folks,  I'm having a problem with installing  R on Solaris.  Has anyone > seen a similar issue?  

Re: [Rd] MaxDiff Scaling

2010-03-09 Thread Ken Knoblauch
sbrand mail.uri.edu> writes: > Dear R List, > I have found that R handles a remarkable number of analytic tasks that are > overlooked by major commercial packages. However, I have not found an R > package that handles MaxDiff Scaling - does one exist? This should probably have been sent to R-h

Re: [Rd] Defining a method in two packages

2010-03-09 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 08.03.2010 17:16, Terry Therneau wrote: Brian& Uwe, Thanks for responding. Let me see if I can refine the query and move towards a solution. From Uwe: Of course, after loading lme4, you can still use the ranef from coxme: coxme::ranef(fit) Of course, but I'm interested in other user