[R] help with expression()

2009-08-17 Thread deanj2k

Hello.
I have a vector and within that vector is one expression.  When I display
this vector it comes up as 

expression(NA_character_, NA_character_, Null Effect, Pooled effect, 
NA_character_, NA_character_, NA_character_, NA_character_, 
NA_character_, paste(Het Contours , I^2, sep = ), 0.4, 
0.41, 0.42, 0.45, NA_character_)

Where the part in bold is the element which is an expression.  How do I
change this vector to a standard format what I can manipulate in the usual
way?
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[R] axis on a non-uniform scale

2009-06-15 Thread deanj2k

hi everyone, just wondering how i might go about plotting a graph (say using
the plot() function) where my x axis is plotting points which have
Log(values) but i want my x axis to display values in exponentiated form

ie. my log values (also scale of the x axis) x axis displays
-1  exp(-1) = 0.36
 0  exp(0) = 1
 1  exp(1) = 2.72
 2  exp(2) = 7.39  
...etc


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[R] funnel plots

2009-06-12 Thread deanj2k

for the function funnelplot(), how do I include 95% confidence intervals for
the effect estimate ( ie. / \ )?
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[R] help with error

2009-05-19 Thread deanj2k

while (theta1!=theta) {...}

gives the error message:
Error in while (theta1 != theta) { : 
  missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

but when i extract theta1!=theta and paste it into the console it comes up
with the output TRUE which contradicts the error message- im not sure what I
am doing wrong
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[R] what is wrong with this code?

2009-05-19 Thread deanj2k

dlogl - -(n/theta)-sum((y/(theta)^2)*((1-exp(y/theta))/(1+exp(y/theta)))

d2logl - (n/theta^2) - sum((-2y/theta^3)*(1-exp(y/theta))/(1+exp(y/theta)))
- sum(((2*y/theta^4)*exp(y/theta))/((1+exp(y/theta))^2))

returns the error message:
Error: unexpected symbol in:
dlogl - -(n/theta)-sum((y/(theta)^2)*((1-exp(y/theta))/(1+exp(y/theta)))
d2logl

do you know what i have done wrong
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[R] help with as.numeric

2009-05-15 Thread deanj2k

hi everyone, wondering if you could help me with a novice problem.  I have a
data frame called subjects with a height and weight variable and want to
calculate a bmi variable from the two.  i have tried:

attach(subjects)
bmi - (weight)/((height/100)^2)

but it comes up with the error:
Warning messages:
1: In Ops.factor(height, 100) : / not meaningful for factors
2: In Ops.factor((weight), ((height/100)^2)) :
  / not meaningful for factors

I presume that this means the vectors height and weight are not in numeric
form (confirmed by is.numeric) so i changed the code to:

bmi - (as.numeric(weight))/((as.numeric(height)/100)^2)

but this just comes up with a result which doesnt make sense i.e. numbers
such as 4 within bmi vector.  Ive looked at
as.numeric(height)/as.numeric(weight) and these numbers just arnt the same
as height/weight which is the reason for the incorrect bmi.  Cant anyone
tell me where I am going wrong?  Its quiet frustrating because I cant
understand why a function claiming to convert to numeric would come up with
such a bizarre result.
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[R] displaying results

2009-05-15 Thread deanj2k

Hi everyone, can anyone tell me how i can change how i display mean(age), i
want it to say The mean age of patients within the sample is mean(age)
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