Comments on: R: The Dummies Package http://opendatagroup.com/2009/09/30/r-the-dummies-package/ Open Data Group's Home Page and Blog Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:38:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: erikr http://opendatagroup.com/2009/09/30/r-the-dummies-package/comment-page-1/#comment-41 erikr Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:51:12 +0000 http://blog.opendatagroup.com/?p=117#comment-41 R 2.10 is doing some changes with their help system, see https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/NEWS, including converting to HTML on the fly and providing its own lightweight http server for the help system. R 2.10 is doing some changes with their help system, see https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/NEWS, including converting to HTML on the fly and providing its own lightweight http server for the help system.

]]> By: Christopher http://opendatagroup.com/2009/09/30/r-the-dummies-package/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Christopher Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:45:32 +0000 http://blog.opendatagroup.com/?p=117#comment-45 Thanks Eric, I did not find a way to get a full, overparametized model matrix, either. It is that use case that prompted me to write <strong>dummies</strong>. I did not know that R did not do a full text search with help.search. I am surprised and agree with you that this should be implemented. ' Wonder why it is not. Chris Thanks Eric,

I did not find a way to get a full, overparametized model matrix, either. It is that use case that prompted me to write dummies.

I did not know that R did not do a full text search with help.search. I am surprised and agree with you that this should be implemented. ‘ Wonder why it is not.

Chris

]]> By: erikr http://opendatagroup.com/2009/09/30/r-the-dummies-package/comment-page-1/#comment-46 erikr Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:21:51 +0000 http://blog.opendatagroup.com/?p=117#comment-46 Hello, The word "dummy" does appear to show up in the ?model.matrix help system, but not in any of the searchable fields! I think with the fast computers we have now, help.search (or the search engine in the HTML version of help.start() ) should have an option to do afull-text search, in case you do not have the internet available. It only searches certain fields of the help file as is, which is why help.search("dummy") does not return information on model.matrix. I didn't believe you that you couldn't get a full, overparameterized model matrix using ?model.matrix with multiple factors...but I could not find a way! Nice work! Hello,

The word “dummy” does appear to show up in the ?model.matrix help system, but not in any of the searchable fields! I think with the fast computers we have now, help.search (or the search engine in the HTML version of help.start() ) should have an option to do afull-text search, in case you do not have the internet available. It only searches certain fields of the help file as is, which is why help.search(”dummy”) does not return information on model.matrix.

I didn’t believe you that you couldn’t get a full, overparameterized model matrix using ?model.matrix with multiple factors…but I could not find a way!

Nice work!

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