[R] help with legacy R code

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Thu Nov 10 13:17:14 CET 2005


1) There is no 'R 2.0'.  What version did you mean?

2) We cannot reproduce your script (no data files), and JPEGs are not 
allowed on R-help: see http://www.r-project.org/mail.html.  (PNGs are, 
though).

3) You have given us no indication of what the problems are nor in which 
lines.

Please give us more usable information.


On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, David Zhao wrote:

> Could somebody help me disect this legacy R script I inherited at work, I
> have two questions:
> 1. I've tried to upgrade our R version from 1.6.2 (yeah, I know), to R 2.0,
> but some of the lines in this script are not compatible with R 2.0, could
> someone help me figure out where the problem is?
> 2. the jpeg generated (attached) seems to be off on some of the data, is
> there a better way of doing this.


> library(MASS)
> jpeg(filename = "diswrong.jpg", width = 800, height = 600, pointsize = 12,
> quality = 75, bg = "white")
>
> myfunc <- function(x, mean, sd, nfalse, ntotal, shape, rate) {
> (nfalse*dgamma(x,shape,rate)+(ntotal-nfalse)*dnorm(x,mean,sd))/ntotal
> }
>
> wrong <- scan("wrongrawdata.txt", list(x=0))

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