[R] [FORGED] Ask function missing in package car

[Ashim Kapoor]

I am reading the book An R and S plus companion to Applied Regression and I
found this function there.

Googling gave me the link [1].

1. http://svitsrv25.epfl.ch/R-doc/library/car/html/Ask.html

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 6:57 AM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz>
wrote:

> On 22/06/16 13:06, Ashim Kapoor wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> my details:-
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>>>
>> R version 3.3.0 (2016-05-03)
>> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>> Running under: Ubuntu 15.10
>>
>> locale:
>>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_IN       LC_NUMERIC=C         LC_TIME=en_IN
>>  [4] LC_COLLATE=en_IN     LC_MONETARY=en_IN    LC_MESSAGES=en_IN
>>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_IN       LC_NAME=C            LC_ADDRESS=C
>> [10] LC_TELEPHONE=C       LC_MEASUREMENT=en_IN LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] car_2.1-2
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>  [1] Rcpp_0.12.5        lattice_0.20-33    MASS_7.3-43
>> grid_3.3.0
>>  [5] nlme_3.1-128       MatrixModels_0.4-1 SparseM_1.7
>> minqa_1.2.4
>>  [9] nloptr_1.0.4       Matrix_1.2-6       splines_3.3.0
>> lme4_1.1-12
>> [13] pbkrtest_0.4-6     parallel_3.3.0     mgcv_1.8-7
>> nnet_7.3-10
>> [17] quantreg_5.24
>>
>>>
>>>
>>     ## Not run:
>>> attach(UN)
>>>
>>> # enter the power-transformation parameter
>>> # start with 1
>>> Ask(p, function(p) qq.plot(box.cox(gdp, p),
>>>
>> +         ylab=paste("transformed gdp, power =",p)))
>> Error: could not find function "Ask"
>>
>>>
>>>
>> What can I do to correct this?
>>
>
> What led you to believe that such a function exists (in the "car" package
> or anywhere else for that matter)?  And what exactly do you want it to do
> for you?
>
> cheers,
>
> Rolf Turner
>
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> Technical Editor ANZJS
> Department of Statistics
> University of Auckland
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