[R] a first opinion on rattle

2009-01-09 Thread Gabriel Ibarra
Graham   I have installed rattle and is pretty intuitive and friendly. However, I miss some features of the original packages which cannot be invoked from rattle. For example, 'randomForest' package is used but random forests cannot be used in one of  -in my opinion- most powerful aspects

[R] [R-pkgs] STAR_0.2-2 on CRAN

2009-01-09 Thread Christophe Pouzat
Hi all, The new version of STAR (0.2-2) is now available on CRAN. * An error in function varianceTime has been corrected (thanks to Chong Gu). * The vignette has been updated. * A new vignette is available on STAR web sire: http://sites.google.com/site/spiketrainanalysiswithr/ * The new

[R] [Fwd: Excluding data with apply]

2009-01-09 Thread Christian Kamenik
Dear all, I've got many responses to my initial question, which is stated below. However, from those responses it has become clear that I need to rephrase my problem. All responses dealt with subscripting the data matrix before 'apply' is run on it. But this is not want I wanted to do.

[R] How to compute Bootstrap p-values

2009-01-09 Thread Andreas Klein
Hello. How can I compute the Bootstrap p-value for a two-sided test problem like H_0: beta=0 vs. H_1: beta!=0 ? Example for the sample mean: x - rnorm(100) bootsample - numeric(1000) for(i in 1:1000) { idx - sample(1:100,100,replace=TRUE) bootsample[i] - mean(x[idx]) } How can I

Re: [R] [Fwd: Excluding data with apply]

2009-01-09 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
you can use something like the following: # your matrix mat - matrix(rnorm(20), 5, 4) # an indicator matrix specifying which columns # you want to exclude each time ind - matrix(sample(1:3, 18, TRUE), ncol = 3) apply(ind, 1, function (i) mean(mat[, -i])) where you may change mean() with

[R] [R-pkgs] ConvCalendars

2009-01-09 Thread Thomas Lumley
A new package ConvCalendars is on CRAN, in response to requests earlier this week. It performs conversions between the Gregorian calendar and other calendars including the Persian (Jalali) calendar used in Iran and Afghanistan and the Hebrew calendar used in Israel. All the heavy lifting is

Re: [R] ftp connections for uploading files

2009-01-09 Thread Thomas Loridan
Thanks a lot Duncan Sorry to insist with my questions but I am very lost with these Rcurl commands... could you point out the few ones I need to set up an ftp connection and just upload a file ? Greatly appreciated Thomas 2009/1/8 Duncan Temple Lang dun...@wald.ucdavis.edu: Prof Brian

Re: [R] Programming Question (setting ylim generally)

2009-01-09 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 00:22 -0500, stephen sefick wrote: library(StreamMetabolism) snip / plot.e - function(b, w, x, y, z){ a - window.chron(b, w, x, y, z) low - min(b*0.98)+5 high - max(b*1.02)+5 plot(a, ylim=c(low, high)) lines(a*0.98, col=blue) lines(a*1.02, col=red) } plot.e(day,

Re: [R] Letter-based representation of pairwise comparisons

2009-01-09 Thread I M G
Thank you! It's what I want :) But I can't make it work. I'm working with R version 2.7.1 under Debian GNU/Linux. Let me paste my results: pairwise.wilcox.test(SAND,Organ,p.adj=bonf) - a Pairwise comparisons using Wilcoxon rank sum test data: SAND and Organ FlowerA FlowerB

Re: [R] Extracting File Basename without Extension

2009-01-09 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day all, On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 08:12:18 -0200 Henrique Dallazuanna www...@gmail.com wrote: Try this also: substr(basename(myfile), 1, nchar(basename(myfile)) - 4) Or, in case that the extension has more than three letters or myfile is a vector of names: R myfile - path1/path2/myoutput.txt R

Re: [R] a first opinion on rattle

2009-01-09 Thread Graham Williams
Received Fri 09 Jan 2009 7:49pm +1100 from Gabriel Ibarra: [...] I have installed rattle and is pretty intuitive and friendly. However, I miss some features of the original packages which cannot be invoked from rattle. For example, 'randomForest' package is??used but random??forests cannot

Re: [R] shake rattle() and roll

2009-01-09 Thread Graham Williams
Received Fri 09 Jan 2009 5:08pm +1100 from Dr Eberhard W Lisse: Graham, [...] Three Requests for Features for rattle(): would it not be nice to also have direct PostgreSQL (RdbiPgSQL) and MySQL (RMySQL) support and support for a SELECT statement? In other words, sometimes the database

Re: [R] Extracting File Basename without Extension

2009-01-09 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Berwin A Turlach wrote: G'day all, On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 08:12:18 -0200 Henrique Dallazuanna www...@gmail.com wrote: Try this also: substr(basename(myfile), 1, nchar(basename(myfile)) - 4) Or, in case that the extension has more than three letters or myfile is a vector of names:

[R] Saving plots as byte streams

2009-01-09 Thread Richard . Cotton
Is it possible to save plots as byte streams? For example, if I want the bytes for a PNG plot, I could use #Write the plot to a PNG file png(test.png) plot(1:10) dev.off() #Read the bytes back in from the file plotbytes - readBin(test.png, raw, n=2000) Ideally, I'd like to avoid having to

Re: [R] Extracting File Basename without Extension

2009-01-09 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Wacek Kusnierczyk waclaw.marcin.kusnierc...@idi.ntnu.no wrote: Berwin A Turlach wrote: G'day all, On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 08:12:18 -0200 Henrique Dallazuanna www...@gmail.com wrote: Try this also: substr(basename(myfile), 1, nchar(basename(myfile)) - 4) Or,

[R] Moving Legend Location for a Stacked Histogram

2009-01-09 Thread Jason Rupert
Thank you again for your response.   This worked great.   Quick question about the legend for qplot.  Instead of being outside the plot, is it possible to move the location of the legend to the upper left or right corner of the plot?  Could you possibly provide an example.   Thank you again

Re: [R] Extracting File Basename without Extension

2009-01-09 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Wacek Kusnierczyk or have sub do the job for you: filenames.ext = c(foo.bar, basename(foo/bar/hello.dolly)) (filenames.noext = sub([.][^.]*$, , filenames.ext, perl=TRUE)) We can omit perl = TRUE here. or maybe not,

Re: [R] Saving plots as byte streams

2009-01-09 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, richard.cot...@hsl.gov.uk wrote: Is it possible to save plots as byte streams? You mean bitmap plots? E.g. PDF plots are not even written sequentially. For example, if I want the bytes for a PNG plot, I could use #Write the plot to a PNG file png(test.png) plot(1:10)

Re: [R] ATT Researchers and the New York Times

2009-01-09 Thread Roland Studer
I agree, that there are better plattforms. I'd love to see something like Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/ When you type your question, it compares it to previously answered questions. Answers can get voted up and down. Answers AND questions can be edited! Regards Roland Studer On

Re: [R] ATT Researchers and the New York Times

2009-01-09 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
No problem, easy peasy, just hack it together and put all the old archives on so the subscribers can vote. greetings, el On 09 Jan 2009, at 14:45 , Roland Studer wrote: I agree, that there are better plattforms. I'd love to see something like Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/ When

Re: [R] Extracting File Basename without Extension

2009-01-09 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Wacek, On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:52:46 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk waclaw.marcin.kusnierc...@idi.ntnu.no wrote: Berwin A Turlach wrote: G'day all, On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 08:12:18 -0200 Henrique Dallazuanna www...@gmail.com wrote: Try this also: substr(basename(myfile), 1,

Re: [R] Extracting File Basename without Extension

2009-01-09 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Berwin A Turlach wrote: G'day Wacek, Or, in case that the extension has more than three letters or myfile is a vector of names: R myfile - path1/path2/myoutput.txt R sapply(strsplit(basename(myfile),\\.), function(x) R paste(x[1:(length(x)-1)], collapse=.)) [1] myoutput R myfile2 -

Re: [R] Extracting File Basename without Extension

2009-01-09 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Wacek, On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:22:19 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk waclaw.marcin.kusnierc...@idi.ntnu.no wrote: Apparently also a possibility, I guess it can be made to work with the original example and my extensions. i guess it does work with the original example and your

[R] rpart with interval censored data crashes R

2009-01-09 Thread Keith Jewell
Hi Everyone, This example code results in R 'crashing'; that is the R application closes with no warnings or error messages. #--- myD - read.table(stdin(), header=TRUE, nrows=20) Broth Salt pH TempN Y Growth 13109.0 2.92 10 90.0 NA0 2

[R] recursive relevel

2009-01-09 Thread baptiste auguie
Dear list, I'm having second thoughts after solving a very trivial problem: I want to extend the relevel() function to reorder an arbitrary number of levels of a factor in one go. I could not find a trivial way of using the code obtained by getS3method(relevel,factor). Instead, I thought

Re: [R] Extracting File Basename without Extension

2009-01-09 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Berwin A Turlach wrote: G'day Wacek, On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:22:19 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk waclaw.marcin.kusnierc...@idi.ntnu.no wrote: Apparently also a possibility, I guess it can be made to work with the original example and my extensions. i guess it does work with the

[R] [R} how to build TermDocMatrix in tm text mining package of R

2009-01-09 Thread Kum-Hoe Hwang
Howdy Gurus I 'd like to ask a question about how to build TermDocMatrix in tm text mining package. It is not clear about importing a plain text file, and them converting that text file into TermDocMatrix file, etc to me. How can I build a TermDocMatrix of a plain text document file for text

Re: [R] Extracting File Basename without Extension

2009-01-09 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Actually, that's a valid regex in any of the variants offered. A more conventional writing of it is the second of f - 'foo.bar.R' sub([.][^.]*$, , f) [1] foo.bar sub(\\.[^.]*$, , f) [1] foo.bar more conventional in r, perhaps. it's not portable, due to the

Re: [R] Extracting File Basename without Extension

2009-01-09 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Wacek, On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:19:46 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk waclaw.marcin.kusnierc...@idi.ntnu.no wrote: i think i did not suggest the original poster to learn perl. As I see it, you didn't suggest anything to the original poster, at least not directly. But, since these days you have to

Re: [R] recursive relevel

2009-01-09 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
I think that you can still use to core of stats:::relevel.factor; the only thing that needs to be changed is the controls for bad values of the 'ref' argument, i.e., relevelNew - function (x, ref, ...) { lev - levels(x) if (is.character(ref)) ref - match(ref, lev) if

[R] snow and different R versions

2009-01-09 Thread Gábor Csárdi
Dear Luke and others, I have many R versions on my machine and want to start a particular one when snow builds its cluster. (The same version I start snow from.) It seems that everything is set up correctly in defaultClusterOptions: mget(ls(defaultClusterOptions), defaultClusterOptions)

Re: [R] recursive relevel

2009-01-09 Thread baptiste auguie
On 9 Jan 2009, at 15:26, Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote: I think that you can still use to core of stats:::relevel.factor; the only thing that needs to be changed is the controls for bad values of the 'ref' argument, i.e., relevelNew - function (x, ref, ...) { lev - levels(x) if

Re: [R] recursive relevel

2009-01-09 Thread ONKELINX, Thierry
Dear Baptiste, You can avoid the recursive stuff. And it will run about twice as fast. order.factor - function (x, ref) + { + last.index - length(ref) # convenience for matlab's end keyword + if(last.index == 1) return(relevel(x, ref)) # end case, normal case + my.new.list -

Re: [R] Programming Question (setting ylim generally)

2009-01-09 Thread stephen sefick
WOW, I am not going to post after midnight. Thank you for your response, and this is what I settled on. `plot.e` - function(b, w, x, y, z){ a - window.chron(b, w, x, y, z) low - min(a*0.98)-(min(a)*0.04) high - max(a*1.02)+(max(a)*0.04) plot(a, ylim=c(low, high)) lines(a*0.98, col=blue)

[R] ATT Researchers and the New York Times

2009-01-09 Thread Gábor Csárdi
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Roland Studer roland.stu...@gmail.com wrote: I agree, that there are better plattforms. I'd love to see something like Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/ Why, you cannot see it now? You can start posting your R questions and answers to it right away if

Re: [R] Extracting File Basename without Extension

2009-01-09 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Right, Other option is: substr(nameFile, 1, tail(unlist(gregexpr(\\., nameFile)), 1) - 1) On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Rau, Roland r...@demogr.mpg.de wrote: Hi, [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Henrique Dallazuanna Try this also: substr(basename(myfile), 1,

Re: [R] Extracting File Basename without Extension

2009-01-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 1/8/2009 9:10 PM, Gundala Viswanath wrote: Dear all, The basename() function returns the extension also: myfile - path1/path2/myoutput.txt basename(myfile) [1] myoutput.txt Is there any other function where it just returns plain base: myoutput i.e. without 'txt' I'm curious about

Re: [R] Extracting File Basename without Extension

2009-01-09 Thread Rau, Roland
Hi, [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Henrique Dallazuanna Try this also: substr(basename(myfile), 1, nchar(basename(myfile)) - 4) This, of course, assumes that the extensions are always 3 characters. Sometimes there might be more (index.html), sometimes less

[R] grep : escape *

2009-01-09 Thread David Hajage
Dear R useRs, Sorry for this foolish question, but I can't find how to escape the * character when using grep : grep(-, c(/3, 2*3, 4-4)) [1] 3 grep(/, c(/3, 2*3, 4-4)) [1] 1 grep(*, c(/3, 2*3, 4-4)) Erreur dans grep(*, c(/3, 2*3, 4-4)) : expression régulière incorrecte '*' De plus : Warning

Re: [R] grep : escape *

2009-01-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 1/9/2009 10:38 AM, David Hajage wrote: Dear R useRs, Sorry for this foolish question, but I can't find how to escape the * character when using grep : You use a backslash to escape the *. Unfortunately, to enter a backslash in an R string, you need to escape it. So the pattern is \\*.

Re: [R] ATT Researchers and the New York Times

2009-01-09 Thread Ajay ohri
R would have truly arrived if the Wall Street Journal mentions it as an alternative to SAS or Excel...but that is some years away... Ajay www.decisionstats.com On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Robert Wilkins irishhac...@gmail.comwrote: Is anyone in the leadership of the R-project going to

[R] Pack and Unpack Strings in R

2009-01-09 Thread Gundala Viswanath
Dear all, Does R has any function/package that can pack and unpack string into bit size? The reason I want to do this in R is that R has much more native statistical function than Perl. Yet the data I need to process is so large that it required me to compress it into smaller unit - process it

Re: [R] grep : escape *

2009-01-09 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Use double backslashes: grep(\\*, c(/3, 2*3, 4-4)) 2009/1/9 David Hajage dhajag...@gmail.com Dear R useRs, Sorry for this foolish question, but I can't find how to escape the * character when using grep : grep(-, c(/3, 2*3, 4-4)) [1] 3 grep(/, c(/3, 2*3, 4-4)) [1] 1 grep(*, c(/3,

Re: [R] Extracting File Basename without Extension

2009-01-09 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Rau, Roland r...@demogr.mpg.de wrote: Hi, [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Henrique Dallazuanna Try this also: substr(basename(myfile), 1, nchar(basename(myfile)) - 4) This, of course, assumes that the extensions are always 3

Re: [R] grep : escape *

2009-01-09 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Use fixed = TRUE argument to grep. 2009/1/9 David Hajage dhajag...@gmail.com: Dear R useRs, Sorry for this foolish question, but I can't find how to escape the * character when using grep : grep(-, c(/3, 2*3, 4-4)) [1] 3 grep(/, c(/3, 2*3, 4-4)) [1] 1 grep(*, c(/3, 2*3, 4-4)) Erreur

Re: [R] grep : escape *

2009-01-09 Thread Gábor Csárdi
* must be escaped for grep with \ and \ must be escaped for R itself with another \, so you need grep(\\*, c(/3, 2*3, 4-4)) Gabor 2009/1/9 David Hajage dhajag...@gmail.com: Dear R useRs, Sorry for this foolish question, but I can't find how to escape the * character when using grep :

Re: [R] grep : escape *

2009-01-09 Thread Tony Breyal
Hi there, you probably want something like: # R grep(\\*, c(/3, 2*3, 4-4)) hope that helps a little, Tony Breyal On 9 Jan, 15:38, David Hajage dhajag...@gmail.com wrote: Dear R useRs, Sorry for this foolish question, but I can't find how to escape the * character when using grep :

Re: [R] recursive relevel

2009-01-09 Thread baptiste auguie
Thanks Thierry, A quick test shows almost equivalent timing with the modification of relevel() suggested earlier: relevel - function (x, ref, ...) { lev - levels(x) if (is.character(ref)) ref - match(ref, lev) if (any(is.na(ref))) stop('ref' must be an existing

Re: [R] grep : escape *

2009-01-09 Thread David Hajage
oooups. Thank you very much. 2009/1/9 Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca On 1/9/2009 10:38 AM, David Hajage wrote: Dear R useRs, Sorry for this foolish question, but I can't find how to escape the * character when using grep : You use a backslash to escape the *. Unfortunately, to

Re: [R] longtable example

2009-01-09 Thread Felipe Carrillo
This is what I got. \documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage{longtable,lscape} \usepackage{accents} \usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{color} % load all the colors \title{\color{Blue}How to transfer column names and add captions to pages in document} \begin{document} \maketitle I am using Sweave

Re: [R] a first opinion on rattle

2009-01-09 Thread Gabriel Ibarra
Graham: OK. Just give me a few days and I will be sending you some simple RVM code lines. However, you have the Kernlab help with some nice examples   Best regards   Dr. Gabriel Ibarra-Berastegi University of the Basque Country SPAIN --- El vie, 9/1/09, Graham Williams

Re: [R] [R} how to build TermDocMatrix in tm text mining package of R

2009-01-09 Thread Tony Breyal
Hi there, I think something like the following is what you want: ### R start... # if you put your plain text files in a folder like this my.path - 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\tony\\Desktop\\texts\\' # then you can construct a simple tdm like this library(tm) my.corpus -

Re: [R] Pack and Unpack Strings in R

2009-01-09 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try this: ## 1 map - list(A = '00', C = '01', G = '10', T = '11') myStr - 'GATTA' paste(map[unlist(strsplit(myStr, NULL))], collapse = ) ## 2 cod - 100000 library(gsubfn) strapply(cod, '[0-9]{2}') names(map)[match(unlist(strapply(cod, '[0-9]{2}')), map)] On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:50 PM,

Re: [R] ATT Researchers and the New York Times

2009-01-09 Thread David M Smith
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Robert Wilkins irishhac...@gmail.comwrote: Is anyone in the leadership of the R-project going to contact the New York Times and clarify that the article gave remarkably short shrift to the people who designed the user interface for R, to a large extent ATT

Re: [R] Pack and Unpack Strings in R

2009-01-09 Thread Martin Morgan
Gundala -- Gundala Viswanath wrote: Dear all, Does R has any function/package that can pack and unpack string into bit size? All of your questions relate to DNA strings. The R/Bioconductor package Biostrings is designed to manipulate such objects. It does not necessarily address this

Re: [R] Extracting File Basename without Extension

2009-01-09 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 1/8/2009 9:10 PM, Gundala Viswanath wrote: Dear all, The basename() function returns the extension also: myfile - path1/path2/myoutput.txt basename(myfile) [1] myoutput.txt Is there any other function where it just returns plain base: myoutput i.e. without

Re: [R] Extracting File Basename without Extension

2009-01-09 Thread Marc Schwartz
on 01/09/2009 09:00 AM Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 1/8/2009 9:10 PM, Gundala Viswanath wrote: Dear all, The basename() function returns the extension also: myfile - path1/path2/myoutput.txt basename(myfile) [1] myoutput.txt Is there any other function where it just returns plain base:

[R] The R Inferno

2009-01-09 Thread Patrick Burns
The R Inferno is now on the Burns Statistics website at http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf Abstract: If you are using R and you think you're in hell, this is a map for you. Also, I've expanded the outline concerning R on the Burns Statistics 'Links' page. Suggestions

Re: [R] Pack and Unpack Strings in R

2009-01-09 Thread jim holtman
see: http://www.nabble.com/Compressing-String-in-R-td21160453.html On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Gundala Viswanath gunda...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Does R has any function/package that can pack and unpack string into bit size? The reason I want to do this in R is that R has much

[R] Calculating p-values from your own distribution as an array

2009-01-09 Thread Stephen Montgomery
Hi - If I have a hypothetical distribution as an array distribution-c(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) and I want to find the probability there is a value smaller than a new value. new_value-4 (such that I'd get this type of output) new_value p-value 4 0.5 3.4 0.4 3 0.4 0

Re: [R] The R Inferno

2009-01-09 Thread Ajay ohri
excellent adaptation of Dante and R with real common sense tips to help beginners especially ..goes to the blogroll.. now if only i could get tips to sort a 5 column * 1 million rows dataset in less than ..eternity Ajay www.decisionstats.com On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Patrick Burns

[R] Calling R functions from Python

2009-01-09 Thread ryan
All- Thanks in advance for your help. I'm trying to call R function using Python in a windows environment and have downloaded the Rpy library however it doesn't appear to work with R 2.7.2. Does anyone know if a new version of Rpy exists for windows that will work with R

Re: [R] The R Inferno

2009-01-09 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Ajay ohri wrote: excellent adaptation of Dante and R with real common sense tips to help beginners especially ..goes to the blogroll.. now if only i could get tips to sort a 5 column * 1 million rows dataset in less than ..eternity Er, that's a fairly short eternity: x -

Re: [R] How to compute Bootstrap p-values

2009-01-09 Thread Murray Cooper
Do you really need the p-value or do you want to test at one of the socially acceptable levels (i.e. .05 or .01). If all you want is the test, use: quantile(bootsample,c(0.025,0.975)) If the quantile range includes 0 then you decide there is no evidence that the mean is different from zero, at

Re: [R] The R Inferno

2009-01-09 Thread Andrew Choens
now if only i could get tips to sort a 5 column * 1 million rows dataset in less than ..eternity May I suggest mySQL, postgreSQL, etc.? If what you need to do is a basic sort, a database is going to be faster than R. -- Insert something humorous here. :-)

Re: [R] longtable example

2009-01-09 Thread Dieter Menne
Felipe Carrillo wrote: This is what I got. \documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage{longtable,lscape} \usepackage{accents} \usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{color} % load all the colors \title{\color{Blue}How to transfer column names and add captions to pages in document} ... The

[R] bug in R2WinBUGS

2009-01-09 Thread John Smith
In newest version of R2WinBUGS, the default directory is changed to working.directory, but never changed back once finished bugs call. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list

[R] Maintain Spaces and Parentheses in Variable Names

2009-01-09 Thread Cloudy56
Is there any way to maintain spaces, slashes, and parentheses in variable names when reading these into R? Of course, read.table converts these to periods. However, I know that it's not strictly illegal to have these characters in variable names as I am able to add them using the variable

Re: [R] Maintain Spaces and Parentheses in Variable Names

2009-01-09 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try this: read.table(, check.names = FALSE) On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Cloudy56 clough.jonat...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to maintain spaces, slashes, and parentheses in variable names when reading these into R? Of course, read.table converts these to periods. However, I

Re: [R] The R Inferno

2009-01-09 Thread roger koenker
I think that this continuation constitutes what Pat calls hijacking the thread at the end of his new and magnificent opus. The original thread should be reserved for kudos to Pat. url:www.econ.uiuc.edu/~rogerRoger Koenker emailrkoen...@uiuc.eduDepartment of

Re: [R] longtable example

2009-01-09 Thread Felipe Carrillo
Thanks Dieter: It's exactly what I want. Thanks a lot for you help. One thing that I noticed though, when I generated my pdf all the pages had different numbers of rows, for example page 1 had 24 rows,second page 15 rows,third page 2 rows of data. Is that something that can be controlled with

Re: [R] longtable example

2009-01-09 Thread Dieter Menne
Felipe Carrillo mazatlanmexico at yahoo.com writes: One thing that I noticed though, when I generated my pdf all the pages had different numbers of rows, for example page 1 had 24 rows,second page 15 rows,third page 2 rows of data. Is that something that can be controlled with pagebreaks? I

Re: [R] Programming Question (setting ylim generally)

2009-01-09 Thread Mike Prager
stephen sefick ssef...@gmail.com wrote: low - min(a*0.98)-(min(a)*0.04) high - max(a*1.02)+(max(a)*0.04) plot(a, ylim=c(low, high)) Unless I am misreading your example, this can be done a little more compactly as: plot(a, ylim = range(a * 0.94, a * 1.06)) -- Mike Prager, NOAA, Beaufort, NC

Re: [R] Calling R functions from Python

2009-01-09 Thread culpritNr1
Hello Ryan, I have good and bad news for you. The good one is that there is a new rpy in active development. The bad one is that you should compile it yourself. You can get it here http://rpy.sourceforge.net/rpy2.html I use the regular distro of rpy under Linux x86_64. It works. I hope you

Re: [R] Programming Question (setting ylim generally)

2009-01-09 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Or even: plot(a, ylim = range(a) + 0.06 * c(-1, 1)) On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Mike Prager mike.pra...@noaa.gov wrote: stephen sefick ssef...@gmail.com wrote: low - min(a*0.98)-(min(a)*0.04) high - max(a*1.02)+(max(a)*0.04) plot(a, ylim=c(low, high)) Unless I am misreading your

[R] equation of confidence interval calculated by predict.lm

2009-01-09 Thread kloe
Hello, Sorry to ask this question, I have been searching quite a lot but I could not find an answer. I have seen one post about this subject but I did not really understand the answer. I have a linear regression with 95% confidence interval. I would like to find the x-absciss of the intersection

Re: [R] Maintain Spaces and Parentheses in Variable Names

2009-01-09 Thread Cloudy56
Thank you very much. That certainly worked. Somehow I did not see that when reading the help file, nor could I find it via Google search so I appreciate your help! -- JC Henrique Dallazuanna wrote: Try this: read.table(, check.names = FALSE) On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:56 PM,

[R] question about the scale in ridge regression of the MASS package

2009-01-09 Thread Xue, Liangjie
Hi I am reading the source code of the ridge regression of the MASS package, and I found the following piece of code X - model.matrix(Terms, m, contrasts) n - nrow(X); p - ncol(X) offset - model.offset(m) if(!is.null(offset)) Y - Y - offset if(Inter - attr(Terms, intercept))

Re: [R] Programming Question (setting ylim generally)

2009-01-09 Thread stephen sefick
WOW, Gabor, that is fancy. I have gotten better at this R thing, but have far to go. That is a neat solution. thanks Stephen On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com wrote: Or even: plot(a, ylim = range(a) + 0.06 * c(-1, 1)) On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:07

Re: [R] Ashlee Vance's article on R in the New York Times

2009-01-09 Thread Patrick Connolly
On Thu, 08-Jan-2009 at 01:26AM -0500, Robert Wilkins wrote: [] | Some R promoters point out that R has lexical scope and lots of | Scheme goodness. ( and what widespread programming language today | does not have lexical scope? ). But other R promoters point out | that programs in S-Plus

Re: [R] The R Inferno

2009-01-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 1/9/2009 1:27 PM, roger koenker wrote: I think that this continuation constitutes what Pat calls hijacking the thread at the end of his new and magnificent opus. The original thread should be reserved for kudos to Pat. Which he well deserves -- it's good advice, and a fun read too.

Re: [R] The R Inferno

2009-01-09 Thread Barry Rowlingson
2009/1/9 Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca: Which he well deserves -- it's good advice, and a fun read too. I'm looking forward to the sequel - Shakespeare perhaps? as.YouLike(it)? Much Ado About NULL? Night[12] | What(You.Will)? Barry __

[R] create sequences from two from and to vectors

2009-01-09 Thread Yasir Kaheil
hi all, how can I create sequences that start from a known vector, say x1 and end with another say x2- also suppose all the sequences will be the same length. I don't want to use a for loop x1-c(1,2,3,4); x2-(3,4,5,6); what I want is 1 2 3 4 2 3 4 5 3 4 5 6 Thanks - Yasir H. Kaheil

Re: [R] create sequences from two from and to vectors

2009-01-09 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
one way is using mapply(), e.g., mapply(:, 1:4, 3:6) I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris Yasir Kaheil wrote: hi all, how can I create sequences that start from a known vector, say x1 and end with another say x2- also suppose all the sequences will be the same length. I don't want to use a for

Re: [R] create sequences from two from and to vectors

2009-01-09 Thread Marc Schwartz
on 01/09/2009 02:42 PM Yasir Kaheil wrote: hi all, how can I create sequences that start from a known vector, say x1 and end with another say x2- also suppose all the sequences will be the same length. I don't want to use a for loop x1-c(1,2,3,4); x2-(3,4,5,6); what I want is 1 2 3 4 2 3

Re: [R] create sequences from two from and to vectors

2009-01-09 Thread Yasir Kaheil
Great! thank you so much! Dimitris Rizopoulos-4 wrote: one way is using mapply(), e.g., mapply(:, 1:4, 3:6) I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris Yasir Kaheil wrote: hi all, how can I create sequences that start from a known vector, say x1 and end with another say x2- also

Re: [R] Extracting File Basename without Extension

2009-01-09 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Duncan Murdoch wrote: I'm curious about something: does file extension have a standard definition? Most (all? I haven't tried them all) of the solutions presented in this thread would return an empty string for the plain base if given the filename .bashrc. right; there's a

Re: [R] Extracting File Basename without Extension

2009-01-09 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Rau, Roland wrote: P.S. Any suggestions how to become more proficient with regular expressions? The O'Reilly book (Mastering...)? Whenever I tried anything more complicated than basic usage (things like ^ $ * . ) in R, I was way faster to write a new function (like above) instead of finding

Re: [R] ftp connections for uploading files

2009-01-09 Thread Duncan Temple Lang
Hi Thomas Rather than getting into the details of libcurl options which are quite general and very flexible, I thought it was easier to write an explicit ftpUpload() function that takes care of the details. You need a new version of the package (as it contains the function and a small change

Re: [R] The R Inferno

2009-01-09 Thread John Fox
Dear Barry, In Dante's Divine Comedy the sequels were the Purgatorio and the Paradiso; the analogy suggests that there may be a way out of R Hell (and actually Patrick provides the way out right in his Inferno -- thanks Patrick!). Regards, John -Original Message- From:

Re: [R] Extracting File Basename without Extension

2009-01-09 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Wacek Kusnierczyk waclaw.marcin.kusnierc...@idi.ntnu.no wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: I'm curious about something: does file extension have a standard definition? Most (all? I haven't tried them all) of the solutions presented in this thread would return an

[R] crash on multiple queries to postgresql db

2009-01-09 Thread Dylan Beaudette
Hi, Subsequent calls to: conn - dbConnect(PgSQL(), host=localhost, dbname=xxx, user=xxx) query - dbSendQuery(conn, query_text) res - dbGetResult(query) are resulting in this: *** glibc detected *** /usr/local/lib/R/bin/exec/R: realloc(): invalid pointer: 0x0a605de4 *** === Backtrace:

Re: [R] Extracting File Basename without Extension

2009-01-09 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Wacek Kusnierczyk waclaw.marcin.kusnierc...@idi.ntnu.no wrote: Rau, Roland wrote: P.S. Any suggestions how to become more proficient with regular expressions? The O'Reilly book (Mastering...)? Whenever I tried anything more complicated than basic usage (things

[R] Matrix: Problem with the code

2009-01-09 Thread Bhargab Chattopadhyay
Hi, Can any one please explain why the following code doesn't work? Or can anyone suggest an alternative. Suppose   x-c(23,67,2,87,9,63,8,2,35,6,91,41,22,3)    mat-0;    for(j in 1:length(x))    {      for(i in 1:p)      mat[i,j]-x[j]^i;    }   

Re: [R] Calculating p-values from your own distribution as an array

2009-01-09 Thread Greg Snow
Try this (replace the 0:9 with your values): distfun - approxfun( c(-Inf,0:9), seq(0,1,length=length(0:9)+1), method='constant', rule=2) distfun( c(-1,0,3,3.4,4,12) ) Does that do what you want? -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare

Re: [R] Maintain Spaces and Parentheses in Variable Names

2009-01-09 Thread Greg Snow
You may also want to look at the label function (and friends) from the Hmisc package. This gives a way to use short, correct names for the variables, but have a longer, more descriptive label to use in plots. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare

Re: [R] create sequences from two from and to vectors

2009-01-09 Thread Greg Snow
Try: mapply( seq, from=1:4, to=7:10 ) [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [1,]1234 [2,]2345 [3,]3456 [4,]4567 [5,]5678 [6,]6789 [7,]789 10 Is that what you want? -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.

[R] no subject

2009-01-09 Thread glenn
Very simple questions if anyone can help: (1) what is the value in saving workspaces, which is offered at every close? I thought it might save the set up of the GUI but I cant work out what it does ­ I run a script that loads the packages I need at the start of every session. (2) mathematica has

Re: [R] Matrix: Problem with the code

2009-01-09 Thread Sarah Goslee
Well, mat doesn't have any dimensions / isn't a matrix, and we don't know what p is supposed to be. But leaving aside those little details, do you perhaps want something like this: x-c(23,67,2,87,9,63,8,2,35,6,91,41,22,3) p - 5 mat- matrix(0, nrow=p, ncol=length(x)) for(j

Re: [R] no subject

2009-01-09 Thread Sarah Goslee
Hi Glenn, On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:20 PM, glenn g1enn.robe...@btinternet.com wrote: Very simple questions if anyone can help: (1) what is the value in saving workspaces, which is offered at every close? I thought it might save the set up of the GUI but I cant work out what it does ­ I run a

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