Re: [R] Probably off topic but I hope amusing

I think Jeff is right, but there is a minor bit of history that is missing. The Intel 8087 numeric coprocessor, announced in 1980, was (in effect) based on a draft version of what later became the IEEE754-1985 standard, and the 8087 included "NaN" as part of its exception handling routines.  How

Re: [R] Image processing in R for BMI calculation

"Body Mass Index" is a rather bizarre thing:body.mass.in.kg / height.in.m^2I have never been able to find any biologicalor physical meaning for this. Yet cliniciansare solemnly advised to measure the weight tothe nearest 0.1kg and the height to thenearest 0.1cm.How do you propose to determine t

Re: [R] Fwd: Error in setting the parameter values of k

I am using mlr3 'fast nearest neighbor' leaner i.e. fnnIts parameter is 'k' which has a default value of 1. When I use tuningusing random search, I set the parameter of k as: lower= 0, upper=3But it gives an error messageError in self$assert(xs) : Assertion on 'xs' failed: k: Element 1 is not >

Re: [R] Hello! Problem - function ''matord'' in R

Might the desired function "matord" be part of a Bioconductor package? This link https://rdrr.io/bioc/clusterSeq/src/R/associatePosteriors.R suggests that could be the case. - T. Arthur Milne __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and

Re: [R] Inappropriate color name

Apologies to the list for continuing a thread which is clearly off-topic.  However, contacting the maintainer of an R package to complain about this specific color name seems ill-considered. 1)  The name "indian red" is a part of widely-used color schemes everywhere, not just in R.  It's the

Re: [R] Inappropriate color name

On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 07:54:01 +1100Jim Lemon wrote: > Hi Elaine,There seems to be a popular contest to discover offence everywhere. > Idon't think that it does anything against racism, sexism > orantidisestablishmentarianism. Words are plucked from our vast lexic