[R] [FORGED] Ask function missing in package car

[Marc Schwartz]

According to the NEWS file for the package:

  https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/car/NEWS

the Ask() function was removed in car version 2.0-0, which was released on 2010-07-26. So it has been gone for about 6 years.

The version of car that is used in the documentation that you are using is 1.2-16, which is from 2009-10-11.

So the online documentation source is outdated.

I see that the Ask() function is listed in the first edition of John's book, which I have on my shelf, but I don't have the second edition to know if that had been updated. A review of the index for the second edition on Amazon.com would suggest that it was removed for the second edition.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz


> On Jun 21, 2016, at 8:29 PM, Ashim Kapoor <ashimkapoor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am reading the book An R and S plus companion to Applied Regression and I
> found this function there.
> 
> Googling gave me the link [1].
> 
> 1. http://svitsrv25.epfl.ch/R-doc/library/car/html/Ask.html
> 
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 6:57 AM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 22/06/16 13:06, Ashim Kapoor wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear All,
>>> 
>>> my details:-
>>> 
>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>> 
>>> R version 3.3.0 (2016-05-03)
>>> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>>> Running under: Ubuntu 15.10
>>> 
>>> locale:
>>> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_IN       LC_NUMERIC=C         LC_TIME=en_IN
>>> [4] LC_COLLATE=en_IN     LC_MONETARY=en_IN    LC_MESSAGES=en_IN
>>> [7] LC_PAPER=en_IN       LC_NAME=C            LC_ADDRESS=C
>>> [10] LC_TELEPHONE=C       LC_MEASUREMENT=en_IN LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>> 
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>> 
>>> other attached packages:
>>> [1] car_2.1-2
>>> 
>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>> [1] Rcpp_0.12.5        lattice_0.20-33    MASS_7.3-43
>>> grid_3.3.0
>>> [5] nlme_3.1-128       MatrixModels_0.4-1 SparseM_1.7
>>> minqa_1.2.4
>>> [9] nloptr_1.0.4       Matrix_1.2-6       splines_3.3.0
>>> lme4_1.1-12
>>> [13] pbkrtest_0.4-6     parallel_3.3.0     mgcv_1.8-7
>>> nnet_7.3-10
>>> [17] quantreg_5.24
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>    ## Not run:
>>>> attach(UN)
>>>> 
>>>> # enter the power-transformation parameter
>>>> # start with 1
>>>> Ask(p, function(p) qq.plot(box.cox(gdp, p),
>>>> 
>>> +         ylab=paste("transformed gdp, power =",p)))
>>> Error: could not find function "Ask"
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> What can I do to correct this?
>>> 
>> 
>> What led you to believe that such a function exists (in the "car" package
>> or anywhere else for that matter)?  And what exactly do you want it to do
>> for you?
>> 
>> cheers,
>> 
>> Rolf Turner
>> 
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