Re: [Bioc-devel] [GenomicFeatures] no pkgName found. makeTxDbPackage() called after txdb created from GFF3 file

2013-02-09 Thread Marc Carlson
Hi Malcolm, In general I have found ensembl to be really great and I expect that their gtf files are probably fine. Usually the exon rank is the 1st thing you will see left out when a gtf file is cutting corners, and you are correct that they seem to be including that. I ran the one for Homo

[Bioc-devel] bug tracker (was Fwd: Reminder: Your Atlassian OnDemand account bioc-internal will be deactivated soon)

2013-02-09 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
Hi, Seems like there was some kind of billing snafu and the people that we pay for our internal bug tracker did not receive our payment. They are going to shut down the tracker on Monday. I'm trying to resolve this but wanted to send a warning...any bugs you filed in the tracker may become

Re: [Bioc-devel] bug tracker (was Fwd: Reminder: Your Atlassian OnDemand account bioc-internal will be deactivated soon)

2013-02-09 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
My apologies, this email was not meant to go to this list. Dan On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Dan Tenenbaum dtene...@fhcrc.org wrote: Hi, Seems like there was some kind of billing snafu and the people that we pay for our internal bug tracker did not receive our payment. They are going to

Re: [Rd] Arguments passing through dot-dot-dot lose ability to check for missing()?

2013-02-09 Thread Peter Meilstrup
This seems related also. Using match.call to capture ... arguments returns odd results for missing arguments. Compare against another method of capturing ... expressions: capture_subst - function(...) eval(substitute(alist(...))) capture_match - function(...) match.call(expand.dots=FALSE)$... f1

[Rd] trouble with accentuated characters in \title tag in Rd file

2013-02-09 Thread LaurentRdevel
Dear R-devel-list, Since I had no answer on the R-help-list (http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general/284539) I try to present my trouble on the R-devel-list. I am sure in the past (one year ago) to succeed in putting accentuated characters in the \title tag in a .Rd file.

Re: [Rd] Regression stars

2013-02-09 Thread Norm Matloff
Thanks for bringing this up, Frank. Since many of us are educators, I'd like to suggest a bolder approach. Discontinue even offering the stars as an option. Sadly, we can't stop reporting p-values, as the world expects them, but does R need to cater to that attitude by offering star display?

Re: [Rd] trouble with accentuated characters in \title tag in Rd file

2013-02-09 Thread Uwe Ligges
See Writing R Extensions: Since R version 2.12.0 markup has been supported in the text, but use of characters other than English text and punctuation (e.g., ‘’) may limit portability. So the answer is: Don't do that. Best, Uwe Ligges On 09.02.2013 19:27, LaurentRdevel wrote: Dear

Re: [Rd] Regression stars

2013-02-09 Thread Tim Triche, Jr.
Changing the default for show.signif.stars should be sufficient to ensure that, if people are going to get themselves into trouble, they will have to do it on purpose. It's just a visual cue; removing it will not remove the underlying issue, namely blind acceptance of unlikely null models and

Re: [Rd] Regression stars

2013-02-09 Thread Tim Triche, Jr.
To clarify, I favor changing the defaults for stringsAsFactors and show.signif.stars to FALSE in R-3.0.0, and view any attempt to remove either functionality as a seemingly simple but fundamentally misguided idea. This is just my opinion, of course. The change could easily be accompanied by a

Re: [Rd] Regression stars

2013-02-09 Thread Norm Matloff
I appreciate Tim's comments. I myself have a social science paper coming out soon in which I felt forced to use p-values, given their ubiquity. However, I also told readers of the paper that confidence intervals are much more informative and I do provide them. As I said earlier, there is no