[BioC] Qspline (again)

[Laurent Gautier]

One last thing about that. Most likely I will not have time to go through the
algorithm before the release. I modified the code in the devel version
so that 'k' takes the value of the parameter 'fit.iter' in case of non-sense.
With Paul's agreement, I will also include his tips in the man page. 


L.



On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 04:45:35PM -0500, Paul Boutros wrote:
> A note to anybody following this discussion.  I found that, another
> solution to Laurents' idea of setting k <- 5 as a default is altering the
> samples parameter.  Depending on the dataset size, a different number of
> samples may be optimal.
> 
> For instance:
> ~200   data points use samples = 0.33
> ~2000  data points use samples = 0.05
> ~10000 data points use samples = 0.02
> 
> So that implies that perhaps the default sampling rate was just too large
> for the data set I was using.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> Paul