[Rd] (PR#13180) Wrong behavior of lines.survfit for conf.int="only"

[Brian Diggs]

Thank you.  I was confused because survival was a standard (recommended) package, so I thought r-bugs was the appropriate place.  I have contacted the maintainer of the package with this information.  My thanks also to Peter Dalgaard for de-base64-coding my message; I have no idea how or why it got encoded that way.  Additionally, this was meant as a follow-up to PR#13171. Both PR#13171 and PR#13180 can be considered dealt with.  Please accept my apologies for messing the process up so much.


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Brian Diggs, Ph.D.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 10:29 AM
To: Peter Dalgaard
Cc: Brian Diggs; R-bugs at r-project.org; r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [Rd] (PR#13180) Wrong behavior of lines.survfit for conf.int="only"

Note that survival is a contributed package: only the maintainer can alter 
it (or at least, if someone else does the change will get lost -- it has 
happened before).  So it is not useful to report on it on R-bugs (see the 
FAQ and the posting guide).


On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Peter Dalgaard wrote:

> diggsb at ohsu.edu wrote:
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>> aWdncw0KDQo=
>> 
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>
> Argh! Jitterbug...must...die...
>
> [pd at titmouse2]$ base64 -d
> SSBkb3dubG9hZGVkIHRoZSBzb3VyY2UgZm9yIHN1cnZpdmFsIGFuZCBJIHRoaW5rIEkgZm91bmQg
> ....
> aWdncw0KDQo=
>
> I downloaded the source for survival and I think I found the bug.  I have not 
> tried to build the package with this change to test it, but just defining the 
> function with this change seems to work.
>
> The code
>
> 	if (conf.int=='only') {
> 	    conf.int <- TRUE
> 	    plot.surv<- TRUE
> 	    }
>
> Should be
>
> 	if (conf.int=='only') {
> 	    conf.int <- TRUE
> 	    plot.surv<- FALSE
> 	    }
>
> --Brian Diggs
>
>
>
>
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