[Rd] Internationalizing the Rcmdr package?

2005-05-21 Thread John Fox
ate. Some experimentation shows that message retrieval by this scheme is essentially instantaneous even when there are several thousand relatively long messages in the data frame. Thanks, John ---- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontar

RE: [Rd] Enhanced version of plot.lm()

2005-04-29 Thread John Fox
Dear John, I agree that component+residual (partial residual) plots, as produced by termplot(), should be examined, but these are distinct from added-variable (partial regression) plots. Regards, John John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University

RE: [Rd] Enhanced version of plot.lm()

2005-04-28 Thread John Fox
Dear John > -Original Message- > From: John Maindonald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 6:47 PM > To: John Fox > Cc: 'Werner Stahel'; 'Peter Dalgaard'; > ; 'David Firth'; 'Martin Maechler' > Sub

RE: [Rd] Enhanced version of plot.lm()

2005-04-28 Thread John Fox
r it's not best to supply plots like these as separate functions rather than as a do-it-all plot method for lm objects. Regards, John -------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socs

RE: [Rd] tclServiceMode: stop Tcl/Tk from updating

2005-04-26 Thread John Fox
? If so, is there any harm in doing this on other platforms, or should I test for Windows? Finally, do you mind if I put tclServiceMode() in the Rcmdr package for the time-being, or would it just be better to wait for R 2.1.1? Thanks, John -

[Rd] Selections from tcltk list boxes

2005-04-01 Thread John Fox
ve an idea of what's going on, or how to get the behaviour that I want -- i.e., to have a single click execute onSelect()? I just checked all this on a Windows XP system under R 2.0.1 but have observed the problem under Linux as well. Thank you, John

RE: [Rd] Does cat("\a") ring a bell?

2005-03-07 Thread John Fox
Dear Duncan et al., Actually, it doesn't work under ESS on Windows either. Regards, John John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca

RE: [Rd] Getting width of Tk text widget via tcltk

2005-02-28 Thread John Fox
was to be able to adjust R output to the width of the widget, and I can now do this (actually, Brian's approach also worked well enough for me). Thank you again for your help. John John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4

RE: [Rd] Getting width of Tk text widget via tcltk

2005-02-28 Thread John Fox
). Thank you, John -------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [Rd] Getting width of Tk text widget via tcltk

2005-02-28 Thread John Fox
that it's consistently true. Regards, John -------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -Original Message- > From: Prof

[Rd] Getting width of Tk text widget via tcltk

2005-02-28 Thread John Fox
cters, but wonder whether I can get the latter directly. Any help would be appreciated. John John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox __ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

RE: [Rd] RE: [R] using poly in a linear regression in the presence of NAf ails (despite subsetting them out)

2005-02-19 Thread John Fox
9, 2005 1:09 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: 'Markus Jantti'; r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch; 'Liaw,Andy' > Subject: [Rd] RE: [R] using poly in a linear regression in > the presence of NAf ails (despite subsetting them out) > > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, John Fox wrote: > >

[Rd] RE: [R] using poly in a linear regression in the presence of NAf ails (despite subsetting them out)

2005-02-18 Thread John Fox
pping into traps because of missing data, then an argument could be made for having the default na.action be na.fail, as in S-PLUS. (I wouldn't advocate this, by the way.) Perhaps I'm missing some consideration here, but isn't it clearest to allow the data, subset, and na.action

RE: [Rd] RE: [R] Testing for S4 objects

2004-12-11 Thread John Fox
o use show() or print(). Regards, John John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -Original Message- > From: [EMAI

[Rd] RE: [R] Testing for S4 objects

2004-12-10 Thread John Fox
c(26, 17, 13, 12, 20, 5, 9, 8, 5, 4, 8) > ll <- function(ymax=15, xhalf=6) + -sum(stats::dpois(y, lambda=ymax/(1+x/xhalf), log=TRUE)) > fit <- mle(ll) Warning message: NaNs produced in: dpois(x, lambda, log) > isS4object(fit) [1] TRUE > isS4object("mle") [1] FALSE > All

RE: [Rd] RCmdr on Linux with R 2.0.0 over VNC can't use GLX

2004-12-02 Thread John Fox
ation. In any event, it shouldn't be hard to make rgl optional, and I'll do that in the next release of the Rcmdr package, probably via something like options(Rcmdr=list(rgl=FALSE)). Regards, John -------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hami

RE: problem with tcltk under Windows (was [Rd] RE: [R] onemore Rcmdrproblem)

2004-11-04 Thread John Fox
etter stability. This is a reasonable solution for me since my intro stats students interact with R only through the Rcmdr GUI. I'm hopeful that tcltk will run more stably on Windows under R 2.0.1 with the console provided by rgui.exe. Regards, John -------- John Fox Dep

RE: problem with tcltk under Windows (was [Rd] RE: [R] one more Rcmdrproblem)

2004-10-22 Thread John Fox
to make sure that it's working properly with R 2.0.0. Regards, John -------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -Original

problem with tcltk under Windows (was [Rd] RE: [R] one more Rcmdr problem)

2004-10-13 Thread John Fox
devel list, since that might be a > better > place to pursue the problem. > > Sorry for the trouble. > John > > > John Fox > Department of Sociology > McMaster University > Hamilton, Ontario > Canada L8S 4M4 > 905-525-9140x23604 > http://so

[Rd] RE: [R] one more Rcmdr problem

2004-10-13 Thread John Fox
have time at the moment to investigate further, but I suspect a problem between tcltk and Rgui. I'm copying this response to the r-devel list, since that might be a better place to pursue the problem. Sorry for the trouble. John -------- John Fox Department of

RE: [Rd] Function some()

2004-09-17 Thread John Fox
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gabor > Grothendieck > Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 12:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Rd] Function some() > > John Fox mcmaster.ca> writes: . . .

[Rd] Function some()

2004-09-17 Thread John Fox
Dear R-devel list members, Probably not an opportune time for this, given the immanent release of 2.0.0, but I was just reminded (while preparing a lecture) of a function that I find useful and that I though might be a candidate for the utils package: The function, which I call some(), behaves lik

RE: [Rd] Problem with Rcmdr Help menu under devel version of R 2.0.0

2004-08-29 Thread John Fox
sage- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 8:46 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Rd] Problem with Rcmdr Help menu under devel > version of R 2.0.0 > > John, > > It's not my code but I

RE: [Rd] Problem with Rcmdr Help menu under devel version of R 2.0.0

2004-08-29 Thread John Fox
, 2004 5:24 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Rd] Problem with Rcmdr Help menu under devel > version of R 2.0.0 > > John, > > due to some Server modifications on my side and quite a lot > of changes in R-2.0.0 (in devel) there might be an &g

RE: [Rd] Problem with Rcmdr Help menu under devel version of R 2.0.0

2004-08-29 Thread John Fox
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 1:33 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Rd] Problem with Rcmdr Help menu under devel > version of R 2.0.0 > > You need to print the result of help. From NEWS >

RE: [Rd] Problem with Rcmdr Help menu under devel version of R 2.0.0

2004-08-28 Thread John Fox
; [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Fox > Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 10:53 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Rd] Problem with Rcmdr Help menu under devel > version of R 2.0.0 > > Dear list members, > > I've encountered the following problem with the

[Rd] Problem with Rcmdr Help menu under devel version of R 2.0.0

2004-08-28 Thread John Fox
Dear list members, I've encountered the following problem with the Rcmdr Help menu in the development version of R 2.0.0 under Windows XP ("Version 2.0.0 Under development (unstable) (2004-08-20), ISBN 3-900051-00-3"): The main Commander window has a (tcltk) Help menu with three items, "Commander

[Rd] Using macros

2004-06-08 Thread John Fox
quot;) tkgrid(OKbutton, cancelButton, helpButton) } test() That is, the OKCancelHelp macro makes the buttons and the call-back functions onCancel and onHelp in the environment of the calling function (here test). This seems to work fine, but I wonder whether there are a

Re: [Rd] A crash (PR#6849)

2004-05-03 Thread John Fox
s, package:relimp, package:multcomp, > package:mvtnorm, package:lmtest, package:abind, package:tcltk, > package:ctest, > package:stats, package:mva, package:foreign, package:lattice, > Autoloads, > package:base > > > 040 5431901, Sol Tertis > > ___

RE: [Rd] rgl for Windows

2004-04-26 Thread John Fox
Dear Uwe, Thanks for the quick response -- rgl is an excellent extension to R. Regards, John > -Original Message- > From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 9:49 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTE

[Rd] rgl for Windows

2004-04-26 Thread John Fox
CRAN provides presents a potential obstacle to at least some Windows users, such as many students in introductory courses. Is there a way to get an rgl binary onto CRAN (or would this just be too much trouble)? Regards, John ---- John Fox Department of Sociology McM

Re: [Rd] rstandard.glm() in base/R/lm.influence.R

2004-01-20 Thread John Fox
By the way, it looks to me like Roger is right. John At 02:16 PM 1/20/2004 +0100, Roger Bivand wrote: I contacted John Fox about this first, because parts of the file are attributed to him. He says that he didn't write rstandard.glm(), and suggests asking r-devel. As it stands, rstandar

Re: [Rd] problem assigning an array to a variable in a data frame

2004-01-08 Thread John Fox
roduced into R, R needs one.) Brian Thanks for the explanation. John On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, John Fox wrote: > Dear r-devel list members, > > Dirk Eddelbuettel brought the following problem to my attention. The code > is abstracted from the appendix on mixed models from my R and S-PLUS Co

[Rd] problem assigning an array to a variable in a data frame

2004-01-07 Thread John Fox
.character(Bryk$school)] to a vector (as I guess was previously the case), then the error should have been produced at that point. Thanks, John - John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4 email: [EMAIL PRO

RE: [Rd] Proposal: 'global' package refactoring

2003-11-25 Thread John Fox
you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai >http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au > > __ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Dr Paul Murrell Department of Statistics The University of Auckland Private B

[Rd] problem with fix() called from Rcmdr

2003-11-02 Thread John Fox
;.twoLevelFactors", listTwoLevelFactors(), envir=.GlobalEnv) tclvalue(.dataSetName) <- paste(.activeDataSet, " ") tkconfigure(.dataSetLabel, fg="blue") if (tclvalue(.attachDataSet) == "1"){ attach(get(dsname, envir=.GlobalEnv), name=dsname)

Re: [Rd] bug or feature? (PR#4150)

2003-09-13 Thread John Fox
numeric() and is.character(), or test that the mode() of the arguments is the same. John --------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone:

Re: [Rd] RAqua

2003-08-14 Thread John Fox
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RE: [Rd] stuck tcltk scrollbars under Windows XP

2003-06-06 Thread John Fox
help, John At 12:52 PM 6/6/2003 -0500, Marc Schwartz wrote: >-Original Message- >From: John Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 11:31 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [Rd] stuck tcltk scrollbars under Windows XP > >

RE: [Rd] stuck tcltk scrollbars under Windows XP

2003-06-06 Thread John Fox
I think, since many of the Rcmdr dialogs have more than one list box. Thanks again, John - John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 905-525-9140x23604 web: www.socsci.mcmaster

Re: [Rd] stuck tcltk scrollbars under Windows XP

2003-06-06 Thread John Fox
ly seems to surface in Windows XP. I wish that we could all forget about trying to get everything to work under Windows, except that nearly 100% of the people I deal with use it. If no better solution materializes, I'll set an option to suppress the calls to tkgrab and tkrelease. Does that

Re: [Rd] stuck tcltk scrollbars under Windows XP

2003-06-06 Thread John Fox
xperienced this behaviour? TK gets lost behind the MDI main window, but I haven't seen this yet with SDI. I haven't done a lot of testing, though... Duncan Murdoch ----- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ont

[Rd] stuck tcltk scrollbars under Windows XP

2003-06-06 Thread John Fox
the problem. I've also had a report of tk windows failing to stay on top of the R-GUI SDI Console in Windows XP, but I haven't been able to duplicate this problem, and it has never occurred in my testing under Windows 2000 and Linux. Has anyone else experienced this behaviour? Th

Re: [Rd] [Package car/data.ellipse]: confidence intervals off by factor sqrt(2)??? (PR#2584)

2003-02-26 Thread John Fox
Dear Volker, At 11:23 PM 2/26/2003 +0100, Volker Franz wrote: Hi John, >>>>> "JF" == John Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JF> Dear Volker, If the data ellipse (or, in this case, circle) is JF> scaled so that its shadows (projections) on the axes

Re: [Rd] [Package car/data.ellipse]: confidence intervals off by factor sqrt(2)??? (PR#2584)

2003-02-26 Thread John Fox
ally on the wrong track here? Best Volker __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University email: [EMAIL PROTECTE