[RkWard-devel] RKWard 0.4.5pre1, 0.4.5 release process

[I. Soumpasis]

Some additions:

1. "Suppose" on previous message is propose.

2. I used both complete.ods and pairwise.complete.ods, getting different
results than the ones expexted. I attach a file with the results. The first
is from a matrix where I replaced the na values with zero, and the other two
are the results from the origin data.frame with na values using the plugin.


2007/1/10, I. Soumpasis <nono.231 at gmail.com>:
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>
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> 2007/1/9, Thomas Friedrichsmeier <thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de
> >:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Since there are only two of us actively committing to SVN at the moment,
> and
> > we both have our feature changes in, I rushed the feature freeze, and
> started
> > the release process for 0.4.5. More on the details of that below.
> >
> > First, however, I'd like to announce a preview release of 0.4.5:
> > http://rkward.sourceforge.net/temp/rkward-0.4.5pre1.tar.gz
> >
> > Major changes in this release include:
> > - many new plugins
> > - rework of the code generated by most plugins
> > - added help system (with only some few pages, so far)
> > - several small fixes and improvements as seen in the ChangeLog at the
> end of
> > this mail.
> >
> > One change in particular I'd like to get your feedback on (if you don't
> like
> > it, it's not too late to remove it from the release, yet):
> > The "Edit", "View", and "Run" menus, as well as the "Run" toolbar are
> now
> > always shown, regardless of which part/window is currently active.
> > The "Output" menu was removed entirely ("Flush Output" was moved to
> Edit,
> > and "Refresh Output" was move to View).
> > The idea behind these changes is, that now the menus will no longer
> "jump
> > around" whenever you switch, e.g. between a help window and an editor
> window.
> > The contents of the menus will still change, but the position remains
> fixed.
> > Does this seem like a good idea, or do you think it causes more harm
> than
> > good?
> >
>
> I find it good. However I would suppose the contents of the menus to be
> stable.
>
> > Of course besides this, please do some testing on the preview release,
> so we
> > can fix the most serious bugs before the official release.
> >
>
> Today I played a little with correlation matrix plugin and I found some
> different results than the ones waiting. Seeing the code I saw that there is
> the use of the " pairwise.complete.obs" which means that the correlation
> between each pair of variables is computed using all complete pairs of
> observations on those variables. I have a dataset where na values must not
> be excluded, but replaced with zero which I have done using impute of Hmisc
> package.
>
> Now to come to the suggestion. Sould the user be warned about this? Or can
> the user choose what to do with the na values?
>
> I also would like to suggest for the future another method for correlation
> which gives the probabilities too. There are two functions doing this in two
> different packages in my knowledge.
> The one is rcorr from Hmisc and the other one is rcor.test from package
> ltm. However none of them has a good output using rk.print(), or
> rk.results().
>
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