Dear Ajay, Each of the Rcmdr plug-ins is an R package with its own dependencies, which you can check on CRAN. Since dependencies can have dependencies, etc., you'd have to be careful in drawing conclusions. I'm not sure what the help system has to do with it.
Best, John -------------------------------- John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -----Original Message----- > From: Ajay Ohri [mailto:ohri2...@gmail.com] > Sent: October-25-10 11:17 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: R-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] 140 packages in R Commander!! > > Hi John > > Its not the download I mind - it's a one shot thing- > > Could you think of integrating the help across plugins- that can help. > > For example I really want to know which plugin would use snow and foreach if > at all > > Ajay > > Websites- > http://decisionstats.com > http://dudeofdata.com > > > Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:54 AM, John Fox <j...@mcmaster.ca> wrote: > > > Dear Ajay, > > This is a consequence of installing the dependencies (including > "suggested" > packages, etc.) of the Rcmdr package, their dependencies, and so on > recursively. The alternative would be for the Rcmdr package to specify > its > direct dependencies via "depends" rather than "suggests," but then > these > dependencies would be loaded whenever the Rcmdr is loaded. > > If you have a better idea, I'm certainly open to it, since many, > probably > most, of the packages that get installed aren't really needed by the > Rcmdr > or by the packages on which it directly depends. The whole business > takes > about 10 minutes on my not-all-that-fast Internet connection and > occupies > about 250 MB (considerably less than 10 US cents at today's hard-disk > prices), which doesn't seem terrible to me. > > Best, > John > > -------------------------------- > John Fox > Senator William McMaster > Professor of Social Statistics > Department of Sociology > McMaster University > Hamilton, Ontario, Canada > web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] > On > > Behalf Of Ajay Ohri > > Sent: October-24-10 12:47 PM > > To: R-help@r-project.org > > Subject: [R] 140 packages in R Commander!! > > > > Dear List > > > > I just downloaded and installed R 2.12.0 and then installed R > Commander . > > > > First it got RCmdr and Car, and then suggested for other packages for > > utilizing the full functionality- I clicked yes! > > > > I got 140 packages installed!!! Cran Mirror was UCLA... > > > > Here is the list. > > > > Is this intentional- I can see some packages like snow and multicore > which > > are desirable but quite optional.(see list below) > > > > Regards > > > > Ajay > > > > 'slam' 'fBasics' 'bitops' 'Rglpk' 'snowFT' 'rlecuyer' 'rsprng' > 'nws' > > 'tweedie' 'gtools' 'gdata' 'caTools' 'Ecdat' 'ergm' 'latentnet' > 'degreenet' > > 'shapes' 'snow' 'RColorBrewer' 'statmod' 'cubature' 'kinship' 'gam' > > 'tripack' 'akima' 'logspline' 'gplots' 'maxLik' 'miscTools' 'sem' > 'rgdal' > > 'network' 'numDeriv' 'statnet' 'rgenoud' 'hexbin' 'ellipse' 'gclus' > > 'mlbench' 'randomForest' 'SparseM' 'Formula' 'ineq' 'mlogit' 'np' > 'plm' > > 'pscl' 'quantreg' 'ROCR' 'sampleSelection' 'scatterplot3d' > 'systemfit' > > 'truncreg' 'urca' 'oz' 'fUtilities' 'fEcofin' 'RUnit' 'quadprog' > 'iterators' > > 'locfit' 'maps' 'rcom' 'rscproxy' 'sp' 'VGAM' 'MCMCpack' 'sna' 'gee' > > 'anchors' 'survey' 'ape' 'flexmix' 'rmeta' 'mlmRev' 'MEMSS' 'coda' > 'party' > > 'ipred' 'modeltools' 'e1071' 'AER' 'bdsmatrix' 'DAAG' 'fCalendar' > 'fSeries' > > 'fts' 'its' 'timeDate' 'timeSeries' 'tis' 'tseries' 'xts' 'foreach' > 'TSA' > > 'RSQLite' 'tkrplot' 'sgeostat' 'mapproj' 'tcltk2' 'R2wd' 'png' 'tree' > 'VIM' > > 'mitools' 'Zelig' 'HSAUR' 'mvtnorm' 'lme4' 'robustbase' 'mboost' > 'coin' > > 'xtable' 'sandwich' 'coxme' 'zoo' 'strucchange' 'dynlm' 'biglm' > 'chron' > > 'acepack' 'TeachingDemos' 'Design' 'mice' 'subselect' 'kernlab' 'vcd' > 'rgl' > > 'relimp' 'multcomp' 'lmtest' 'leaps' 'Hmisc' 'effects' 'colorspace' > > 'aplpack' 'abind' 'RODBC' car Rcmdr > > > > Websites- > > http://decisionstats.com > > http://dudeofdata.com > > > > > > Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Marcelo Lima <mlim...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I generated a covariance matrix and visualized as a 2D contour plot > > > (x,y, covariance matrix), I would like to extract from the matrix > the > > > values ( in x and y) that auto-correlate which I will plot as an > > > normal (x,y(being the values that auto-corelate to a certain x and > y > > > values in my original matrix). Any suggestions? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Marcelo > > > > > > -- > > > Marcelo Andrade de Lima > > > > UNIFESP - Universidade Federal de Sco Paulo Departamento de > Bioqummica > > > Disciplina de Biologia Molecular Rua Trjs de Maio 100, 4 andar - > Vila > > > > Clementino, 04044-020 Lab +55 11 55764438 R.1188 Cell +55 11 > 92725274 > > > ml...@unifesp.br > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.