From charles.dupont at Vanderbilt.Edu  Tue Sep 30 15:03:32 2008
From: charles.dupont at Vanderbilt.Edu (Charles Dupont)
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:03:32 -0500
Subject: [Rd] describe function in package Hmisc and function
 format.dates in chron (PR#13087)
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This is because format.dates has become non-callable from outside the chron 
package.  Until the next release of Hmisc you can download a fixed version of 
the describe function at

http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/svn/R/Hmisc/trunk/R/describe.s

Charles

kemphillips at comcast.net wrote:
> Full_Name: Kem Phillips
> Version: 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
> OS: Windows Xp professional
> Submission from: (NULL) (98.221.200.108)
> 
> 
> The Hmisc function   describe   fails, giving the error message:
> 
>    Error in formatDateTime(dd, atx, !timeUsed) : 
>      could not find function "format.dates"
> 
> Loading the chron package, where function  dates  apparently resides, does not
> fix the problem.   Note also that loading  chron  gives a warning.  Earlier
> versions of  chron  from the archive failed to load properly.  Please see the
> entire session below, with the error message at the bottom.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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> [Previously saved workspace restored]
> 
>> library(Hdisc)
> Error in library(Hdisc) : there is no package called 'Hdisc'
>> library(Hmisc)
> 
> Attaching package: 'Hmisc'
> 
> 
>         The following object(s) are masked from package:base :
> 
>          format.pval,
>          round.POSIXt,
>          trunc.POSIXt,
>          units 
> 
> Warning message:
> package 'Hmisc' was built under R version 2.7.2 
>> library(Design)
> Loading required package: survival
> Loading required package: splines
> 
> Attaching package: 'survival'
> 
> 
>         The following object(s) are masked from package:Hmisc :
> 
>          untangle.specials 
> 
> Design library by Frank E Harrell Jr
> 
> Type library(help='Design'), ?Overview, or ?Design.Overview')
> to see overall documentation.
> 
> 
> Attaching package: 'Design'
> 
> 
>         The following object(s) are masked from package:survival :
> 
>          Surv,
>          survfit 
> 
> 
>         The following object(s) are masked from package:Hmisc :
> 
>          .R.,
>          .SV4. 
> 
> Warning message:
> package 'Design' was built under R version 2.7.2 
>> prostate                 NOTE THAT DATA SET prostate exists 
>     patno stage              rx dtime                       status age  wt      
>             pf hx sbp dbp                               ekg        hg sz
> 1       1     3 0.2 mg estrogen    72                        alive  75  76     
> normal activity  0  15   9                      heart strain 13.798828  2
> 
> ?..
> 
> 505 13   8.39843750  0  3311
> 506 NA  22.19921880  1  3428
>> describe(prostate)
> Error in formatDateTime(dd, atx, !timeUsed) : 
>   could not find function "format.dates"
>> library(chron)
> Warning message:
> package 'chron' was built under R version 2.7.2 
>> describe(prostate)
> Error in formatDateTime(dd, atx, !timeUsed) : 
>   could not find function "format.dates"
> 
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Charles Dupont	Computer System Analyst		School of Medicine
		Department of Biostatistics	Vanderbilt University



[Rd] describe function in package Hmisc and function format.dates in chron (PR#13087)
Charles Dupont