[R] The contrast and Design libraries

[R. Michael Weylandt]

On another list it was reported that a new version of contrast was
uploaded to CRAN earlier today that makes use of Design's replacement
"rms". Wait a day or two and then download this updated version and
rms.

http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-mac@r-project.org/msg00924.html


Michael

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Joanne Lello <LelloJ at cardiff.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have been using the contrast library in my teaching for the last couple
> of years and am right in the middle of this year's round. In the last week
> R has been updated to version 2.14.0 on our computers. This has had the
> unfortunate effect of meaning the contrasts library no longer works, as
> the Design library is no longer available. I wonder if anyone has a fix
> for this...or alternatively can tell me another package that is as simple
> to use (the students won't cope with anything more complicated - we're all
> biologists not statisticians).
>
> I hope someone can help.
>
> Here is a typical bit of code I'm currently running so you can see what
> I'm trying to do:
>
> exptime is a covariate and both infstat and status are factors
>
> mod<-glm(propalive~exptime+infstat+status+
>        infstat:status,
>        data=dat)
>
> library(contrast)
>
> contrast(mod3,
>   a = list(status = levels(dat$status), infstat="control", exptime=8230),
>   b = list(status = levels(dat$status), infstat="infected",exptime=8230))
>
> any help gratefully received,
>
> Jo
>
> Dr Joanne Lello
> Cardiff University
> School of Biosciences
> Organism and Environment Group
> Biomedical Sciences Building
> Museum Avenue
> Cardiff
> CF10 3AX
> Tel: 02920 875885
> E-mail: lelloj at cardiff.ac.uk
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