[R] How do I find the apparent magnitude of a galaxy from a FITS file?

[David Winsemius]

On Aug 10, 2012, at 4:06 PM, andrej wrote:

> I put "sos::findFn('fits')" into the search engine and it returned 0  
> results,
> so how are you finding this?

'sos' is an R package. I'm guessing you did not install and load 'sos'  
before typing that command at the console.  (You might be able to get  
away without loading by using the double-colon maneuver.) That was not  
a particularly well crafted search strategy IMO,  given the number of  
times that the word 'fit' or 'fits' will appear in statistical  
documentation.

sos::findFn('fits')
found 2482 matches;  retrieving 20 pages, 400 matches.
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Nonetheless, it "worked". The browser page coming up from that search  
had the package FITSio 25th line.

Better might have been:

 > sos::findFn('fits astronomical')
found 4 matches;  retrieving 1 page

> Also: Why was my mailing list message rejected as a duplicate?

Because you posted two duplicate messages. One of them was forwarded  
to the list.

> I don't even understand how these underground subscriptions work, am  
> I off the mailing
> list because it's a duplicate?

No. You were just notified in hopes that you would stop sending  
duplicates. The list-server thinks you are a subscriber, but for some  
reason it will keep on sending posting from new subscribers to the  
moderation queue for the first 24 hours. That's not something that  
moderator have control over. Don't complain, we don't like it either.

I don't understand the term "underground subscriptions". Mailing lists  
can be public or private. Ours is rather public, having multiple  
mirrors and search engines around the world. Our host university's  
site-admins have installed fairly stringent filters in an effort to  
prevent their domain from being automatically flagged as a source of  
spam. Some domains like hotmail.com have a high probability of being  
flagged for moderator review. Some posters from hotmail are on  
perpetual review, despite being perfectly fine citizens.


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David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA