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sfsmisc (version 0.9-8)

Utilities from Seminar fuer Statistik ETH Zurich

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Useful utilities [`goodies'] from Seminar fuer Statistik ETH Zurich, many ported from S-plus times.

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GPL (GNU Public Licence), Version 2 or later

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Martin Maechler

Last Published

November 21st, 2025

Functions in sfsmisc (0.9-8)

p.profileTraces

Plot a profile.nls Object With Profile Traces

D2ss

Numerical Derivatives of (x,y) Data (via Smoothing Splines)

ellipsePoints

Compute Radially Equispaced Points on Ellipse

pmax.sa

Parallel Maxima / Minima (Scalar, Array)

D1D2

Numerical Derivatives of (x,y) Data via Smoothing Splines

linesHyperb.lm

Plot Confidence or Prediction Hyperbolas around a Regression Line

errbar

Scatter Plot with Error Bars

compresid2way

Plot Components + Residuals for Two Factors

cum.Vert.funkt

Kumulative Verteilung Aufzeichnen

integrate.xy

Cheap Numerical Integration through Data points.

p.scales

Conversion between plotting scales: usr, cm, symbol

tkdensity

GUI Density Estimation using Tcl/Tk

hatMat

Hat Matrix of a Smoother

nr.sign.chg

Number of Sign Changes in Sequence

p.res.2x

Stahel's Residual Plot against 2 X's

KSd

Approximate Critical Values for Kolmogorov-Smirnov's D

p.ts

plot.ts with multi-plots and Auto-Title -- on 1 page

p.dnorm

Plot Parametric Density Functions

posdefify

Find a Close Positive Definite Matrix

mult.fig

Plot Setup for MULTiple FIGures, incl. Main Title

u.log

(Anti)Symmetric Log High-Transform

huberM

Safe (generalized) Huber M-Estimator of Location

Deprecated

Deprecated 'sfsmisc' Functions

Sys.cpuinfo

Provide Information about the CPU

TA.plot

Tukey-Anscombe Plot (residual vs. fitted) of a Linear Model.

paste.vec

Utility for 'Showing' S vectors

diagX

The ``Other'' Diagonal Matrix

polyn.eval

Evaluate Polynomials

ecdf.ksCI

Plot the Empirical Distribution Function Together With 95% Confidence Curves.

rrange

Robust Range using Boxplot `Quartiles'

QUnif

Quasi Randum Numbers via Halton Sequences

inv.seq

Inverse seq() -- Short Expression for Index Vector

plotStep

Plot a Step Function

digitsBase

Digit/Bit Representation of Integers in any Base

glob2rx

Change Wildcard or Globbing Pattern into Regular Expression

pl.ds

Plot Data and Smoother / Fitted Values

u.Datumvonheute

Datum und Uhrzeit (auf deutsch)

xy.grid

Produce regular grid matrix.

vcat

Paste Utilities -- Concatenate Strings

p.tachoPlot

Draw Symbol on a Plot

tapplySimpl

More simplification in tapply() result

quadrant

Give the Quadrant Number of Planar Points

f.robftest

Robust F-Test: Wald test for multiple coefficients of rlm() Object.

p.datum

Plot `Datum' (deutsch!) unten rechts

xy.unique.x

Uniqify (X,Y) Values using Weights

AsciiToInt

Character to and from Integer Codes Conversion

hist.bxp

Plot a Histogram and a Boxplot

empty.dimnames

Empty Dimnames of an Array.

mat2tex

Produce LaTeX commands to print a matrix

boxplot.matrix

Draw a Boxplot for each Column (Row) of a Matrix

p.res.2fact

Plot Numeric (e.g. Residuals) vs 2 Factors Using Boxplots

rot2

Rotate Planar Points by Angle

mpl

Simple Matrix Plots

u.datumdecode

Convert ``Numeric'' Dates

u.assign0

`Portable' assign / get functions (R / S-plus) for `frame 0'

n.code

Convert "Round" Integers to Short Strings and Back

iterate.lin.recursion

Generate Sequence Iterating a Linear Recursion

p.arrows

Prettified Arrows Plots

u.boxplot.x

Utility Returning x-Coordinates of Boxplot

u.sys

`Portable' System function (R / S-plus)

n.plot

Name Plot: Names or Numbers instead of Points in Plot

ps.latex

PostScript Preview Device with Optional `LaTeX' Touch

diagDA

Diagonal Discriminant Analysis

signi

Rounding to Significant Digits

unif

Nice Uniform Points in Interval

potatoes

Fisher's Potato Crop Data

printTable2

Berechne und Drucke Randtotale etc f�r 2-weg Kontingenz Tafeln

ps.end

Close PostScript device opened by `ps.do'

u.date

Return Date[-Time] String in `European' Format

col01scale

Matrix Scaling Utilities

uniqueL

A Reversable Version of unique()

plotCI

Plot Confidence Intervals / Error Bars

bl.string

Blank String

last

Get Last Elements of a Vector

p.hboxp

Add a Horizontal Boxplot to the Current Plot

Sys.ps

Return Process Status (unix ps) Information

prt.DEBUG

Utility Printing in DEBUG mode