[R] Re: R-help Digest, Vol 13, Issue 8

[Yong Wang]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch wrote:

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>    1. Re: "Statistiques avec R" (pallier)
>    2. Re: graphic device MetaPost (Prof Brian Ripley)
>    3. Re: graphic device MetaPost (Gabor Grothendieck)
>    4. Re: graphic device MetaPost (Itay Furman)
>    5. applying data generating function (Fred J.)
>    6. missing values (Grace Conlon)
>    7. drawing filled countries according to data using
>       map('world')? (Jens Hainmueller)
>    8. Re: missing values (Peter Dalgaard)
>    9. RE: applying data generating function (Phineas Campbell)
>   10. Re: applying data generating function (Christophe Pallier)
>   11. Re: applying data generating function (Spencer Graves)
>   12. Frequency ploygon help (Robert W. Baer, Ph.D.)
>   13. Re: applying data generating function (Peter Dalgaard)
>   14. Re: drawing filled countries according to data using
>       map('world')? (Ray Brownrigg)
>   15. Excel files (Grace Conlon)
>   16. drawing filled countries according to data using
>       map('world')?	- follow up (Jens Hainmueller)
>   17. Re: Excel files (Robert W. Baer, Ph.D.)
>   18. Re: applying data generating function (Spencer Graves)
>   19. Re: Excel files (Gabor Grothendieck)
>   20. Re: applying data generating function (Gabor Grothendieck)
>   21. Re: drawing filled countries according to data using
>       map('world')?	- follow up (Spencer Graves)
>   22. Re: applying data generating function (Spencer Graves)
>   23. Re: applying data generating function (Gabor Grothendieck)
>   24. Re: applying data generating function (Prof Brian Ripley)
>   25. Re: Internal NA removal out of Time Series with na.omit.ts()
>       (Adrian Trapletti)
>   26. Re: Internal NA removal out of Time Series with na.omit.ts()
>       (Prof Brian Ripley)
>   27. Re: Internal NA removal out of Time Series with na.omit.ts()
>       (Adrian Trapletti)
>   28. lm - significance disappears (Stuart Leask)
>   29. getting the std errors in the lm function  (Fulvio Copex)
>   30. dsn (Margarida J?lia Rodrigues Igreja)
>   31. Re: lm - significance disappears (Prof Brian Ripley)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 13:21:56 +0100
> From: pallier <pallier at lscp.ehess.fr>
> Subject: Re: [R] "Statistiques avec R"
> To: r-help <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Message-ID: <404B13E4.8010909 at lscp.ehess.fr>
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> Shigeru Mase wrote:
> 
> >
> > Probably you may be curious about the mysterious author
> > of "Statistiques avec R" as well as me.  He seems a mathematician.
> > I found one more extraordinary work of him.
> >
> > http://tex.loria.fr/prod-graph/zoonekynd/metapost/metapost.html
> >
> > He made Metapost (a kind of Metafont software which produces
> > ps outputs) a statistical graphics software. Look and have a fun!
> 
> 
> Vincent Zoonekynd is *not* the creator of Metapost. John D. Hobby is 
> (cf. http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/hobby/index.html).
> 
> 
> Vincent Zoonekynd indeed has a ph.D. in maths from the university of 
> Paris 7 (Jussieu). On his homepage (http://zoonek.free.fr/), he says he 
> is looking for a job in computer science or bioinformatics (last update: 
> october 2003). The job market is very gloomy for young scientists in 
> France. I do not know if he's looking for a job in a foreign country, 
> but his CV indicates that he speaks English, and has a medium level in 
> Japanese.
> 
> He wrote the "Statistiques avec R" notes while learning R. I like these 
> pages very much too, but they are notes taken by a mathematician 
> learning statistics. In some parts, he has not yet fully grasped all the 
> concepts (but he indicates this, and he's stressing that this is a work 
> in progress). This remark does not detract from the quality and the 
> usefulness of his work.
> 
> Christophe Pallier
> http://www.pallier.org
> 
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 14:42:17 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [R] graphic device MetaPost
> To: =?gb2312?q?Jinsong=20Zhao?= <zh_jinsong at yahoo.com.cn>
> Cc: rhelp <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403071430370.24043-100000 at gannet.stats>
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> On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, [gb2312] Jinsong Zhao wrote:
> 
> > By default, MetaPost passes all text through TeX. This has the
> > advantage of allowing essentially any TeX symbols in titles and labels.
> > It give us, who use the multibyte character in ordinary communication,
> > much convenience. Gnuplot has fulfilled this function, and it give me a
> > deep impression for I could use Chinese character in plots with a minor
> > modification to the MetaPost file.
> 
> I don't think so: you would still need character metrics for the fonts you 
> use to be able to centre them, for example.
> 
> > I hope the R Development Core Team could consider MetaPost as a graphic
> > device in future R version.
> 
> We would welcome your contributing such a device.  Note though that 
> there is a public API for graphics devices, and so you could just 
> contribute the device to CRAN.
> 
> If perchance you meant `I want the R core team to write a metapost device
> for me', then you have not grasped how Open Source projects work.
> 
> There are some plans for internationalization of R via UTF-8, but this
> will be a considerable amount (man months?) of work, and of very little
> benefit to any of the core developers.  Volunteers would be welcome.
> 
>