Peter,

Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> morse@pobox.com (Doug Morse) writes:
> > 1.  Interrupt Key
> > ...
> This is a bug in the readline library. Upgrade to 2.1/3.0.

Great -- thanks!

> > 2.  Sourcing MS-DOS Files
> > ...
> Probably, but you could also make a habit of copying your files with
> mcopy -t ...

Certainly.  It's just that I mount my home dir using Samba and
copy things around a lot, doing analyses in R/Linux, R/Win95, and
SPlus/Win95.  It'd be nice not to have to think about that issue.

> > 3.  Coercing Types within a DataFrame
> > ...
> That looks like a bug. However, this works: 
> 
> > data(airquality)
> > airquality$"Day"<-factor(airquality$"Day")
> > airquality["Day"]<-codes(airquality["Day"])
> 
> and upcoming versions will allow:
> > airquality<-transform(airquality,Day=factor(Day))

Again, thanks.  I'll make use of the alternate form until it's
fixed.  Funny, this form *doesn't* work in Splus...

> > 4.  Anovalist.lm
> > 
> ..
> >     
> >     For example, the following should be allowed:
> > 
> >     -----
> >     Analysis of Variance Table
> >     
> >     Model 1: Satisfaction + Age ~ Anxiety
> >     Model 2: Satisfaction ~ Age + Severity + Anxiety
> >     
> >        Res.Df  Res.Sum-Sq  Df  Sum-Sq       F  Pr(>F)
> >     1      21        2152
> >     2      19        2012   2   139.9  0.6609  0.5279
> >     -----
> >     
> >     It represents a test of whether beta1 = -1.0 and beta2 = 0.0
> >     using the generalized linear test statistic (see "Applied
> 
> Wouldn't this be better done using offsets?

I'm not sure what you mean by 'offsets'.  Could you elaborate a
bit?

Thanks!
Doug


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