[Rd] bug (PR#13570)

[Thomas Lumley]

Could you explain what you are seeing that is wrong?

In R 2.7.2, which is what I have here, it looks ok, and the NEWS file doesn't list any changes since 2.7.1.

      -thomas


On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 rhafen at stat.purdue.edu wrote:

>
> <<insert bug report here>>
>
> This is a CRITICAL bug!!!  I have verified it in R 2.8.1 for mac and
> for windows.  The problem is with loess degree=0 smoothing.  For
> example, try the following:
>
> x <- 1:100
> y <- rnorm(100)
> plot(x, y)
> lines(predict(loess(y ~ x, degree=0, span=0.5)))
>
> This is obviously wrong.
>
> R 2.8
>
> --please do not edit the information below--
>
> Version:
>  platform = i386-apple-darwin8.11.1
>  arch = i386
>  os = darwin8.11.1
>  system = i386, darwin8.11.1
>  status =
>  major = 2
>  minor = 8.1
>  year = 2008
>  month = 12
>  day = 22
>  svn rev = 47281
>  language = R
>  version.string = R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
>
> GUI:
>  R-GUI 1.27 (5301)
>
> Locale:
> en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> Search Path:
>  .GlobalEnv, tools:RGUI, package:stats, package:graphics,
> package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, package:Rutils,
> package:methods, Autoloads, package:base
>
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Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle