A new version of contrast was sent to crane today that works with rms.

Max

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Max Kuhn <mxk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm working on it and will do more once I'm over the flu.=[
>
> Max
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Frank Harrell <f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu> 
> wrote:
>> I would rather see the most effort put into getting the maintainer of
>> contrast to update.  I've been warning about rms for a year and a half.
>>
>> Frank
>>
>>
>> On 11/21/2011 05:35 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
>>>
>>> On Nov 21, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Lara R. Appleby 04 wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am using the "contrast" package (available from CRAN) which in
>>>> turn depends on the "Design" package (no longer in CRAN).
>>>
>>> I see that you are right. It does show up in the binary packages when
>>> I use the GUI installer but I suspect that is because I had it before.
>>> From:
>>> Documentation for package ‘contrast’ version 0.14
>>> DESCRIPTION file.
>>> Depends: R (>= 2.2.1), Design
>>> Suggests: lattice, nlme, Hmisc, geepack, MASS, sandwich Description:
>>> Contrast methods, in the style of the Design package, for fit objects
>>> produced by the lm, glm, gls, and geese functions.
>>>>
>>>> I downloaded the Design package from a web archive. How do I load
>>>> this into R?
>>>
>>> I was surprised to see that my older installed version of Design for R
>>> 2.13.1 seemed to survive the update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) process
>>> I subjected my library to. And loading 'package:contrast' does load
>>> Design. (Which I then needed to detach since I use 'rms' and Design
>>> unsurprisingly masked most of that package)
>>>
>>> If you had a prior copy of Design, you might first  try to copy it
>>> directly into your 2.14 library folder and then run
>>> update.packages("Design", checkBuilt=TRUE)
>>>
>>> If that is not an option, the Archive link at the bottom of the
>>> contributed packages page should have the most recent version ....
>>> from 2009.
>>>
>>> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/Design/Design_2.3-0.tar.gz
>>>
>>>   You will need to use an Xcode-equipped version of MacOS to compile
>>> that source package, since it does have binaries.
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chairman      School of Medicine
>>                   Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University
>>
>>
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> --
>
> Max
>



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Max

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