[Rd] Suggestion for the reproducibility of R home page figure
Friedrich Leisch
friedrich.leisch at stat.uni-muenchen.de
Sat Nov 21 09:58:43 CET 2009
Thanks a lot, fixed.
Best,
Fritz
>>>>> On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:53:31 +0100,
>>>>> Jean lobry (Jl) wrote:
> Dear R-devel,
> googling for the single letter R yields R-home page as the firt hit,
> which is extremly nice.
> By clicking on the figure you get the code of the "Winner of the R
> Homepage graphics competition 2004."
> By copy/pasting in your R console it doesn't work because it is impossible
> to install the mva package.
> This is my point.
> As documented in ONEWS the reason is simple: since R 1.9.0 the package
> mva as been merged into the package stats.
> My suggestion is just to change the begining of the code as follows to
> neutralize the requirement for the mva package:
> ----
> ### Code by Eric Lecoutre, Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium
> ### Winner of the R Homepage graphics competition 2004
> ### Works in R 1.8.1 ...
> ### Still works in R 2.10.0 (2009-10-26) by deleting the requirement
> for the mva package ...
> require(ade4)
> #require(mva) no more needed since R version 1.9.0 as mva was merged
> in the standard stats package.
> require(RColorBrewer)
> require(pixmap)
> etc.
> ----
> so that reproducibility of the graph is straightforward (at least for
> someone who
> is able to install an R package).
> This is a minor change. I consider this is important because it may help people
> wanting to test quickly the long term reproducibility of R results. For them
> installing a package is not a problem, but do not expect them to have time to
> dig in old ONEWS....
> Please take this as a constructive comment, I was amazed how it was easy for me
> to run this "old" R code. Just want to share.
> Very Best,
> Jean
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