Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Mike, you make very worthy suggestions; but I assume the word
> "request" is really putting off almost all of us "R corers".
> You *have* heard that R is a volunteer project, that much of its
> development has happened in unpaid time of core team mat
S Ellison wrote:
Rather than transport quantities of the Introduction to R (a perfectly
sensible title for a very good starting point, IMHO) would it not be
simpler and involve less maintenance to include a link or
cross-reference in the 'formula' help page to the relevant part of the
Introductio
Rather than transport quantities of the Introduction to R (a perfectly
sensible title for a very good starting point, IMHO) would it not be
simpler and involve less maintenance to include a link or
cross-reference in the 'formula' help page to the relevant part of the
Introduction? If nothing else,
> "MP" == Mike Prager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:29:16 -0400 writes:
MP> Mike Prager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I was at a loss to understand the use of "/" until I looked in
>> "An Introduction [!] to R," where I found the explanation.
>>
>>
Mike Prager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was at a loss to understand the use of "/" until I looked in
> "An Introduction [!] to R," where I found the explanation.
>
> My request is that more complete material on model formulae be
> lifted from "Introduction to R" (or elsewhere) and put into th
This isn't particularly helpful because the book is quite old but
formula notation/functionality is covered in depth in "Statistical
Models in S" by
Chambers and Hastie. My guess is that there is strong consistency
between what is said in there and how things work in R.
On Fri, May 30, 20
In working through material on p.272 of MASS (4th ed.), I came
across the following model formula:
pet1.lm <- lm(Y ~ No/EP - 1, Petrol)
I was at a loss to understand the use of "/" until I looked in
"An Introduction [!] to R," where I found the explanation.
My request is that more complete mate
