[R] fixup for debug package and R2.4.0

A number of users have spotted a terminal problem with the 'debug' package under R2.4.0, along the lines of > mtrace(x) > x() Error in attr(value, "row.names") <- rlabs : row names must be 'character' or 'integer', not 'double' This arose from a bug in 'rbind.data.frame' in R2.4.0 itself. The

Re: [R] debug package in R 2.4.0

Hi Henric et al. Thanks for the notification. The R development cycle always fills me with dread in case my packages stop working! I do plan to change debug (and no doubt mvbutils) to match the changes in R, hopefully in the next week or two... depends on spare time, sigh... bye Mark -Or

[R] [R-pkgs] new version of package:debug

y were in the function itself. See R-news 3.3 for an article on using this package. Please let me know of any comments and bug reports. Mark Bravington (mark.bravington at csiro.au) CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences _

[R] [R-pkgs] new version of package:mvbutils

nment (see also RNews 1/3), and for "dynamically scoped" functions. * Graphical display of which functions call which other functions. * numerous other lower-level utility functions and operators. Please let me know of any comments and bug reports. Mark Bravington (mark.bravington at

[R] GLMMs & LMEs: dispersion parameters, fixed variances, design matrices

Three related questions on LMEs and GLMMs in R: (1) Is there a way to fix the dispersion parameter (at 1) in either glmmPQL (MASS) or GLMM (lme4)? Note: lme does not let you fix any variances in advance (presumably because it wants to "profile out" an overall sigma^2 parameter) and glmmPQL rep

[R] [R-pkgs] New versions: mvbutils and debug packages

g without (too many) tears" in R-news 3/3. The new versions fix a few minor bugs in the 1.0.0 releases, as documented in the CHANGES.TXT files in each package. Mark *** Mark Bravington CSIRO (CMIS) PO Box 1538 Castray Esplanade Hobart TAS 7001

Re: [R] Directory-like data organisation w/ environments?

> -Original Message- > > Dear r-users! > > I wonder if there is a way of designing a directory like > structure for holding my data using environments? > > It would be nice if I could implement a kind of 'cd' command > to change to a differend environment etc. > > Can anybody give me

FW: Réf. : [R] Packages debug and mvbutils

Please use the CRAN versions, not the ftp versions which are now out-of-date. Both packages are on base CRAN now, but may not have propagated to all mirrors yet. (But thanks to Gerald for responding-- I had de-subscribed from R-help.) For anyone using the HANDY package (a Windows-specific packag