Re: [R] [OT] A free (as in freedom) replacement for StatTransfer

2007-12-08 Thread Tim Churches
Marc Schwartz wrote: > Perhaps the most notable format that is lacking is the SAS proprietary > format (not the Transport format), which is not openly published and to > my knowledge, has not been independently reverse engineered. The SAS proprietary dataset and format catalogue structures were su

Re: [R] things that are difficult/impossible to do in SAS or SPSS but simple in R

2008-01-17 Thread Tim Churches
James Reilly wrote: >> Max Kuhn wrote: >>> Factors have huge benefits over character data in SAS. For a series >>> regulatory filings, I had miles of SAS code to compute KxK tables >>> where all the cells must show up. For example, if one of the levels of >>> one of the variables was never observed

Re: [R] things that are difficult/impossible to do in SAS or SPSSbut simple in R

2008-01-18 Thread Tim Churches
hadley wickham wrote: > On Jan 18, 2008 1:19 PM, Jeffrey J. Hallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Frank E Harrell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Rob Robinson wrote: I wonder if those who complain about SAS as a programming environment have discovered SAS/IML which provides a progra

Re: [R] sprucing up the R homepage

2007-09-25 Thread Tim Churches
Finny Kuruvilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been a R-user for quite some time. The graphic on the home page > looks a bit in need of polish so I applied some antialiased > transformations that Peter Dalgaard has previously posted to R-help > for improving graphic quality. I had to change

Re: [R] sprucing up the R homepage

2007-09-27 Thread Tim Churches
Martin Maechler wrote: >> "Paul" == Paul Murrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:13:05 +0200 writes: > > Paul> Hi > Paul> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> > >>> So I applied my corrected margins to Tim's Cairo trick and voila: > >>> http://www.