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sfsmisc (version 0.95-7)

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 (0.95-7)

compresid2way

Plot Components + Residuals for Two Factors

pmax.sa

Parallel Maxima / Minima (Scalar, Array)

Deprecated

Deprecated 'sfsmisc' Functions

pl.ds

Plot Data and Smoother / Fitted Values

f.robftest

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

Sys.ps

Return Process Status (unix ps) Information

digitsBase

Digit/Bit Representation of Integers in any Base

p.res.2x

Stahel's Residual Plot against 2 X's

bl.string

Blank String

KSd

Approximate Critical Values for Kolmogorov-Smirnov's D

plotStep

Plot a Step Function

quadrant

Give the Quadrant Number of Planar Points

n.plot

Name Plot: Names or Numbers instead of Points in Plot

hist.bxp

Plot a Histogram and a Boxplot

last

Get Last Elements of a Vector

rrange

Robust Range using Boxplot `Quartiles'

p.profileTraces

Plot a profile.nls Object With Profile Traces

rot2

Rotate Planar Points by Angle

col01scale

Matrix Scaling Utilities

polyn.eval

Evaluate Polynomials

mult.fig

Plot Setup for MULTiple FIGures, incl. Main Title

inv.seq

Inverse seq() -- Short Expression for Index Vector

posdefify

Find a Close Positive Definite Matrix

AsciiToInt

Character to and from Integer Codes Conversion

D2ss

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

cum.Vert.funkt

Kumulative Verteilung Aufzeichnen

paste.vec

Utility for 'Showing' S vectors

empty.dimnames

Empty Dimnames of an Array.

mpl

Simple Matrix Plots

signi

Rounding to Significant Digits

p.res.2fact

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

nr.sign.chg

Number of Sign Changes in Sequence

ellipsePoints

Compute Radially Equispaced Points on Ellipse

errbar

Scatter Plot with Error Bars

p.ts

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

QUnif

Quasi Randum Numbers via Halton Sequences

p.dnorm

Plot Parametric Density Functions

diagDA

Diagonal Discriminant Analysis

D1D2

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

ecdf.ksCI

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

diagX

The ``Other'' Diagonal Matrix

pretty10exp

Nice 10 ** k Label Expressions

linesHyperb.lm

Plot Confidence or Prediction Hyperbolas around a Regression Line

p.hboxp

Add a Horizontal Boxplot to the Current Plot

axTexpr

Axis Ticks Expressions in Nice 10 ** k Form

printTable2

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

boxplot.matrix

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

ps.end

Close PostScript device opened by `ps.do'

mat2tex

Produce LaTeX commands to print a matrix

u.Datumvonheute

Datum und Uhrzeit (auf deutsch)

integrate.xy

Cheap Numerical Integration through Data points.

ps.latex

PostScript Preview Device with Optional `LaTeX' Touch

plotCI

Plot Confidence Intervals / Error Bars

lseq

Generate Sequences, Equidistant on Log Scale

prt.DEBUG

Utility Printing in DEBUG mode

tkdensity

GUI Density Estimation using Tcl/Tk

unif

Nice Uniform Points in Interval

p.tachoPlot

Draw Symbol on a Plot

iterate.lin.recursion

Generate Sequence Iterating a Linear Recursion

Sys.cpuinfo

Provide Information about the CPU

u.boxplot.x

Utility Returning x-Coordinates of Boxplot

n.code

Convert "Round" Integers to Short Strings and Back

potatoes

Fisher's Potato Crop Data

vcat

Paste Utilities -- Concatenate Strings

u.date

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

TA.plot

Tukey-Anscombe Plot (Residual vs. Fitted) of a Linear Model

xy.unique.x

Uniqify (X,Y) Values using Weights

xy.grid

Produce regular grid matrix.

p.scales

Conversion between plotting scales: usr, cm, symbol

uniqueL

A Reversable Version of unique()

u.assign0

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

tapplySimpl

More simplification in tapply() result

u.log

(Anti)Symmetric Log High-Transform

hatMat

Hat Matrix of a Smoother

p.datum

Plot `Datum' (deutsch!) unten rechts

u.sys

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

p.arrows

Prettified Arrows Plots

u.datumdecode

Convert ``Numeric'' Dates