\name{Misc}
\alias{clowess}
\alias{confbar}
\alias{getLatestSource}
\alias{inverseFunction}
\alias{james.stein}
\alias{km.quick}
\alias{latexBuild}
\alias{lm.fit.qr.bare}
\alias{matxv}
\alias{makeSteps}
\alias{nomiss}
\alias{outerText}
\alias{sepUnitsTrans}
\alias{strgraphwrap}
\alias{trap.rule}
\alias{trellis.strip.blank}
\alias{unPaste}
\alias{whichClosest}
\alias{whichClosePW}
\alias{whichClosek}
\alias{xless}
\title{Miscellaneous Functions}
\description{
  This documents miscellaneous small functions in Hmisc that may be of
  interest to users.

  \code{clowess} runs \code{lowess} but if the \code{iter} argument
  exceeds zero, sometimes wild values can result, in which case
  \code{lowess} is re-run with \code{iter=0}.
  
  \code{confbar} draws multi-level confidence bars using small rectangles
  that may be of different colors.

  \code{getLatestSource} fetches and \code{source}s the most recent
  source code for functions in packages in the Vanderbilty University
  CVS repository.

  \code{inverseFunction} generates a function to find all inverses of a
  monotonic or nonmonotonic function that is tabulated at vectors (x,y),
  typically 1000 points.  If the original function is monotonic, simple linear
  interpolation is used and the result is a vector, otherwise linear
  interpolation is used within each interval in which the function is
  monotonic and the result is a matrix with number of columns equal to the
  number of monotonic intervals.  If a requested y is not within any
  interval, the extreme x that pertains to the nearest extreme y is
  returned. Specifying what='sample' to the returned function will cause a
  vector to be returned instead of a matrix, with elements taken as a
  random choice of the possible inverses.

  \code{james.stein} computes James-Stein shrunken estimates of cell
  means given a response variable (which may be binary) and a grouping
  indicator.

  \code{km.quick} provides a fast way to invoke \code{survfitKM} in the
  \code{survival} package to get Kaplan-Meier estimates for a
  single stratum for a vector of time points (if \code{times} is given) or to
  get a vector of survival time quantiles (if \code{q} is given).

	\code{latexBuild} takes pairs of character strings and produces a
	single character string containing concatenation of all of them, plus
	an attribute \code{"close"} which is a character string containing the
	LaTeX closure that will balance 
	LaTeX code with respect to parentheses, braces, brackets, or
	\code{begin} vs. \code{end}.  When an even-numbered element of the
	vector is not a left parenthesis, brace, or bracket, the element is
	taken as a word that was surrounded by \code{begin} and braces, for which the
	corresponding \code{end} is constructed in the returned attribute.

  \code{lm.fit.qr.bare} is a fast stripped-down function for computing
  regression coefficients, residuals, \eqn{R^2}, and fitted values.  It
  uses \code{lm.fit}. 

  \code{matxv} multiplies a matrix by a vector, handling automatic
  addition of intercepts if the matrix does not have a column of ones.
  If the first argument is not a matrix, it will be converted to one.
  An optional argument allows the second argument to be treated as a
  matrix, useful when its rows represent bootstrap reps of
  coefficients.  Then ab' is computed.  \code{matxv} respects the
  \code{"intercepts"} attribute if it is stored on \code{b} by the
  \code{rms} package.  This is used by \code{\link[rms]{orm}}
  fits that are bootstrap-repeated by \code{\link[rms]{bootcov}} where
  only the intercept corresponding to the median is retained.  If
  \code{kint} has nonzero length, it is checked for consistency with the
  attribute.

  \code{makeSteps} is a copy of the dostep function inside the
  \code{survival} package's \code{plot.survfit} function.  It expands a
  series of points to include all the segments needed to plot step
  functions.  This is useful for drawing polygons to shade confidence
  bands for step functions.

  \code{nomiss} returns a data frame (if its argument is one) with rows
  corresponding to \code{NA}s removed, or it returns a matrix with rows
  with any element missing removed.

  \code{outerText} uses \code{axis()} to put right-justified text
  strings in the right margin.  Placement depends on \code{par('mar')[4]}

  \code{sepUnitsTrans} converts character vectors containing values such
  as \code{c("3 days","3day","4month","2 years","2weeks","7")} to
  numeric vectors 
  (here \code{c(3,3,122,730,14,7)}) in a flexible fashion.  The user can
  specify a 
  vector of units of measurements and conversion factors.  The units
  with a conversion factor of \code{1} are taken as the target units,
  and if those units are present in the character strings they are
  ignored.  The target units are added to the resulting vector as the
  \code{"units"} attribute.

  \code{strgraphwrap} is like \code{strwrap} but is for the current
  graphics environment.
  
  \code{trap.rule} computes the area under a curve using the trapezoidal
  rule, assuming \code{x} is sorted.

  \code{trellis.strip.blank} sets up Trellis or Lattice graphs to have a
  clear background on the strips for panel labels.
  
  \code{unPaste} provides a version of the S-Plus \code{unpaste} that
  works for \R and S-Plus.

  \code{whichClosePW} is a very fast function using weighted multinomial
  sampling to determine which element of a vector is "closest" to each
  element of another vector.  \code{whichClosest} quickly finds the closest
  element without any randomness.

  \code{whichClosek} is a slow function that finds, after jittering the
  lookup table, the \code{k} closest matchest to each element of the
  other vector, and chooses from among these one at random.

  \code{xless} is a function for Linux/Unix users to invoke the system
  \code{xless} command to pop up a window to display the result of
  \code{print}ing an object.
}
\usage{
confbar(at, est, se, width, q = c(0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 0.95, 0.99), 
        col = gray(c(0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1)),
        type = c("v", "h"), labels = TRUE, ticks = FALSE,
        cex = 0.5, side = "l", lwd = 5, clip = c(-1e+30, 1e+30),
        fun = function(x) x,
        qfun = function(x) ifelse(x == 0.5, qnorm(x),
                            ifelse(x < 0.5, qnorm(x/2),
                            qnorm((1 +  x)/2))))
getLatestSource(x=NULL, package='Hmisc', recent=NULL, avail=FALSE,
                type=c('svn','cvs'))

inverseFunction(x, y)
james.stein(y, group)
km.quick(S, times, q)
latexBuild(\dots, afterEndtabular=NULL, beforeEndtable=NULL, sep='')
lm.fit.qr.bare(x, y, tolerance, intercept=TRUE, xpxi=FALSE, singzero=FALSE)
matxv(a, b, kint=1, bmat=FALSE)
nomiss(x)
outerText(string, y, cex=par('cex'), \dots)
sepUnitsTrans(x, conversion=c(day=1, month=365.25/12, year=365.25, week=7),
              round=FALSE, digits=0)
strgraphwrap(x, width = 0.9 * getOption("width"),
             indent = 0, exdent = 0,
             prefix = "", simplify = TRUE, units='user', cex=NULL)
trap.rule(x, y)
trellis.strip.blank()
unPaste(str, sep="/")
whichClosest(x, w)
whichClosePW(x, w, f=0.2)
whichClosek(x, w, k)
xless(x, \dots, title)
}
\arguments{
  \item{a}{a numeric matrix or vector}
	\item{afterEndtabular}{one or more character strings that are to be
		placed right after the end of any \code{tabular} environment, in
		\code{latexBuild}}
  \item{at}{x-coordinate for vertical confidence intervals, y-coordinate
	for horizontal}
  \item{avail}{set to \code{TRUE} to have \code{getLatestSource} return
	a data frame of available files and latest versions instead of
	fetching any}
  \item{b}{a numeric vector}
  \item{beforeEndtable}{one or more character strings that are to be placed
		right before the end of any \code{table} environment, in \code{latexBuild}}
  \item{cex}{character expansion factor}
  \item{clip}{interval to truncate limits}
  \item{col}{vector of colors}
  \item{conversion}{a named numeric vector}
  \item{digits}{number of digits used for \code{round}}
  \item{est}{vector of point estimates for confidence limits}
  \item{f}{a scaling constant}
  \item{fun}{function to transform scale}
  \item{group}{a categorical grouping variable}
  \item{intercept}{set to \code{FALSE} to not automatically add a column
	of ones to the \code{x} matrix}
  \item{k}{get the \code{k} closest matches}
  \item{kint}{which element of \code{b} to add to the result if \code{a}
		does not contain a column for intercepts}
	\item{bmat}{set to \code{TRUE} to consider \code{b} a matrix of
		repeated coefficients, usually resampled estimates with rows
		corresponding to resamples}
  \item{labels}{set to \code{FALSE} to omit drawing confidence
	coefficients}
  \item{lwd}{line widths}
  \item{package}{name of package for \code{getLatestSource}, default is
	\code{'Hmisc'}}
  \item{q}{vector of confidence coefficients or quantiles}
  \item{qfun}{quantiles on transformed scale}
  \item{recent}{an integer telling \code{getLatestSource} to get the
	\code{recent} most recently modified files from the package}
  \item{round}{set to \code{TRUE} to round converted values}
  \item{S}{a \code{\link[survival]{Surv}} object}
  \item{se}{vector of standard errors}
  \item{sep}{a single character string specifying the delimiter.  For
		\code{latexBuild} the default is \code{""}.}
  \item{side}{for \code{confbar} is \code{"b","l","t","r"} for bottom,
	left, top, right.}
  \item{str}{a character string vector}
  \item{string}{a character string vector}
  \item{ticks}{set to \code{TRUE} to draw lines between rectangles}
  \item{times}{a numeric vector of times}
  \item{title}{a character string to title a window or plot}
  \item{tolerance}{tolerance for judging singularity in matrix}
  \item{type}{\code{"v"} for vertical, \code{"h"} for horizontal.  For
	\code{getLatestSource} this specifies the type of source code
	repository, \code{'svn'} (the default) or 
	\code{'cvs'}, which is now outdated as Subversion has replaced CVS
	in the Vanderbilt Biostatistics server.}
  \item{w}{a numeric vector}
  \item{width}{width of confidence rectanges in user units, or see
	\code{\link{strwrap}}} 
  \item{x}{a numeric vector (matrix for \code{lm.fit.qr.bare}) or data
	frame.  For \code{xless} may be any object that is sensible to
	\code{print}.  For \code{sepUnitsTrans} is a character or factor
	variable.  For \code{getLatestSource} is a character string or
	vector of character strings containing base file names to retrieve
	from CVS.  Set \code{x='all'} to retrieve all source files.  For
	\code{clowess}, \code{x} may also be a list with x and y
	components.  For \code{inverseFunction}, \code{x} and \code{y}
	contain evaluations of the function whose inverse is needed.
	\code{x} is typically an equally-spaced grid of 1000 points.  For
	\code{strgraphwrap} is a character vector.}
  \item{xpxi}{set to \code{TRUE} to add an element to the result
		containing the inverse of \eqn{X'X}}
	\item{singzero}{set to \code{TRUE} to set coefficients corresponding
		to singular variables to zero instead of \code{NA}.}
  \item{y}{a numeric vector.  For \code{inverseFunction} \code{y} is the
	evaluated function values at \code{x}.}
  \item{indent, exdent, prefix}{see \code{\link{strwrap}}}
  \item{simplify}{see \code{\link{sapply}}}
  \item{units}{see \code{\link{par}}}
  \item{\dots}{arguments passed through to another function.  For
		\code{latexBuild} represents pairs, with odd numbered elements being
		character strings containing LaTeX code or a zero-length object to
		ignore, and even-numbered elements representing LaTeX left
		parenthesis, left brace, or left bracket, or environment name.}
}
\author{Frank Harrell and Charles Dupont}
\examples{


trap.rule(1:100,1:100)

unPaste(c('a;b or c','ab;d','qr;s'), ';')

sepUnitsTrans(c('3 days','4 months','2 years','7'))

set.seed(1)
whichClosest(1:100, 3:5)
whichClosest(1:100, rep(3,20))

whichClosePW(1:100, rep(3,20))
whichClosePW(1:100, rep(3,20), f=.05)
whichClosePW(1:100, rep(3,20), f=1e-10)

x <- seq(-1, 1, by=.01)
y <- x^2
h <- inverseFunction(x,y)
formals(h)$turns   # vertex
a <- seq(0, 1, by=.01)
plot(0, 0, type='n', xlim=c(-.5,1.5))
lines(a, h(a)[,1])            ## first inverse
lines(a, h(a)[,2], col='red') ## second inverse
a <- c(-.1, 1.01, 1.1, 1.2)
points(a, h(a)[,1])

\dontrun{
getLatestSource(recent=5)  # source() most recent 5 revised files in Hmisc
getLatestSource('cut2')    # fetch and source latest cut2.s
getLatestSource('all')     # get everything
getLatestSource(avail=TRUE) # list available files and latest versions
}
}
\keyword{programming}
\keyword{utilities}
\keyword{iplot}