Re: [R] HOw to delete a row in the data matrix and change the order of the row ???

2009-11-18 Thread Uwe Ligges
Assign new row names? Uwe Ligges ychu066 wrote: hi, i delete row 65,70,75 in my data data- data[-c(65,70,75),] But i also want the order of the row to match up eg: 67 11111111111111 1 68 1111111

Re: [R] question about function heatmap

2009-11-18 Thread Uwe Ligges
Copied form the R-help messages' footer: PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. Uwe Ligges Waverley @ Palo Alto wrote: Hi, I am using the function heatmap(stats) to draw a microarray

Re: [R] Perform operations on dataframes called with paste in loops

2009-11-18 Thread Uwe Ligges
separent wrote: In a loop, I compose the name of a csv file using paste, then read it (e.g., dataset1.csv, dataset2.csv, etc). The name of the dataframe assigned to the imported csv is also composed with paste (e.g., dataset1, dataset2, etc.). Now I want to perform operations on the dataframes

[R] recode according to old levels

2009-11-18 Thread Andreas Wittmann
Dear R-users, i try to recode a factor according to old levels F - factor(sample(c(rep(A, 4), rep(B,2), rep(C,5 recode(F, levels(F)[c(1,3)]='X'; else='Y') i tried to work with eval or expression around levels(F)[c(1,3)], but nothing seems to work. Many thanks if anyone could tell me

Re: [R] Relase positive with log and zero of negative with 0

2009-11-18 Thread Martin Maechler
PE == Peter Ehlers ehl...@ucalgary.ca on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:55:00 -0700 writes: PE David Winsemius wrote: On Nov 15, 2009, at 10:18 AM, rkevinbur...@charter.net wrote: This is a very simple question but I couldn't form a site search quesry that would return

Re: [R] Normal distribution test

2009-11-18 Thread Markus Mehrwald
Thank you for all the answers! Kjetil, I am not sure if we are talking about the same thing. I only have a two dimensional normal distribution which leads to three dimensional data. You mean with reject I should not do such a test? My data files contain about 26 points which I can reduce

[R] Importing tRNA data into R ?

2009-11-18 Thread Tal Galili
Hello dear R help group, I would like to download the tRNA data on: http://gtrnadb.ucsc.edu/download.html And then import it into R. Can anyone direct me as to how to do so? Thanks, Tal -- My contact information: Tal Galili E-mail:

[R] getting the name of a single object in R for debugging output

2009-11-18 Thread Andrew
I often use a debug flag (set to TRUE) to turn on various debugging print statements in my R scripts.  I was thinking I should create a function debugPrint(object,debugFlag), to print out the object name and contents if the debugFlag is set to TRUE.  Then I wouldn't have to make my script

[R] Switch Help

2009-11-18 Thread oscar linares
Dear Rexperts, Given, aar -function(command) { switch(command, {scrn = cat(scrn :Screening,\n)} {dx = cat(dx:Diagnosis,\n)} {df = cat(df:Don't Forget,\n)} ) } I want to be able to do: aar(dx) # function does cat(dx:Diagnosis,\n) aar(c(dx,df)) # function does cat(dx

Re: [R] Lattice plot

2009-11-18 Thread baptiste auguie
Hi, ggplot2 can also split the graphs in different panels, d= read.table(textConnection( chr start1 end1 meth positive 1 1 10 20 1.5y 2 2 12 18 -0.7n 3 3 22 34 2.0y 4 1 35 70 3.0y 5 1120 140 -1.3n 6 1180 190

[R] Odp: recode according to old levels

2009-11-18 Thread Petr PIKAL
Hi r-help-boun...@r-project.org napsal dne 18.11.2009 09:24:40: Dear R-users, i try to recode a factor according to old levels F - factor(sample(c(rep(A, 4), rep(B,2), rep(C,5 recode(F, levels(F)[c(1,3)]='X'; else='Y') i tried to work with eval or expression around

Re: [R] recode according to old levels

2009-11-18 Thread Peter Ehlers
Andreas Wittmann wrote: Dear R-users, i try to recode a factor according to old levels F - factor(sample(c(rep(A, 4), rep(B,2), rep(C,5 recode(F, levels(F)[c(1,3)]='X'; else='Y') i tried to work with eval or expression around levels(F)[c(1,3)], but nothing seems to work. I assume

Re: [R] Switch Help

2009-11-18 Thread Colin Millar
I think you just missed some commas out... aar - function(command = c(scrn, dx, df)) { command - match.arg(command) switch(command, scrn = cat(scrn :Screening,\n), dx = cat(dx:Diagnosis,\n), df = cat(df:Don't Forget,\n) ) } Colin. Ps you don't need the curly

Re: [R] Switch Help

2009-11-18 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
If you want type twice commands in function aar, you could try this: aar -function(command) { switch(command, scrn = cat(scrn :Screening,\n), dx = cat(dx:Diagnosis,\n), df = cat(df:Don't Forget,\n)) } invisible(Vectorize(aar)(c('dx', 'df'))) On Wed,

Re: [R] Switch Help

2009-11-18 Thread Colin Millar
And if you want to do both do invisible( lapply(c(scrn,dx), aar) ) but I think you will have to use multiple ifs rather than switch if you intend to add more functionality... . . . I think you just missed some commas out... aar - function(command = c(scrn, dx, df)) { command -

Re: [R] getting the name of a single object in R for debugging output

2009-11-18 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try this: debugPrint - function(x, ...){ print(sprintf(%s: %d, deparse(substitute(x)), x), ...) } On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Andrew nodeco...@yahoo.com wrote: I often use a debug flag (set to TRUE) to turn on various debugging print statements in my R scripts.  I was thinking I

Re: [R] (exact) confidence bounds for lognormal parameters \mu and \sigma

2009-11-18 Thread Krusty the Klown
Thank you, it is what I was looking for: library(fitdistrplus) x-rlnorm(100) res-mledist(x, distr=lnorm) res Anyway, the results do not provide confidence intervals, but mle estimates and the hessian matrix, whose extradiagonal elements are null... is it correct?

[R] How to install older version of R?

2009-11-18 Thread Pan,
Dear list This is much like a linux problem, but I can't find any reference for it. My OS is ubuntu 9.04 and a version of 2.9.2 of R has been already installed in. Now, I need to install the version of 2.7.1. I google a lot of websites and it seems like without a painless way provided me

Re: [R] (exact) confidence bounds for lognormal parameters \mu and \sigma

2009-11-18 Thread Krusty the Klown
Sorry, probbaly it is...:blush: Krusty the Klown wrote: Anyway, the results do not provide confidence intervals, but mle estimates and the hessian matrix, whose extradiagonal elements are null... is it correct? http://www.weibull.com/LifeDataWeb/confidence_bounds_log.htm

Re: [R] Switch Help

2009-11-18 Thread Alain Guillet
I believe that is what you want: aar -function(command) { for(i in command){ cat(i,:,switch(EXPR=i, scrn = Screening, dx = Diagnosis, df = Don't Forget), \n) } } aar(c(dx,df)) dx : Diagnosis df : Don't Forget Alain oscar linares wrote:

Re: [R] Lattice plot

2009-11-18 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Tim Smith tim_smith_...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I was trying to get a graph in lattice with the following data frame (7 rows, 5 cols): chr start1 end1 meth positive 1   1     10   20  1.5        y 2   2     12   18 -0.7        n 3   3     22   34  2.0        

Re: [R] lattice barchart

2009-11-18 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Wilberforce will.pa...@matrixknowledge.com wrote: I have a data frame with two factors and want to create panel barcharts with one factor defining the panels and the other the vertical categories by which I can count the rows of data in each combination of

Re: [R] specifying group plots using panel.groups

2009-11-18 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:47 PM, wintere ericawint...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to plot two types of data on the same graph: points and distributions. I am attempting to use the panel.groups function, but cannot seem to get it to work. I have a melted data set and put in a FLAG column

[R] boxplot

2009-11-18 Thread Sukhbir Rattan
Hi, I have simple query In which package drawBoxplot function is available? Regards, Sukhbir Singh Rattan [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read

[R] parsing numeric values

2009-11-18 Thread baptiste auguie
Dear list, I'm seeking advice to extract some numeric values from a log file created by an external program. Consider the following example, input - readLines(textConnection( some text ax =1.3770E-03 bx =3.4644E-07 ay =1.9412E-04 by =4.8840E-08 other text aax =

Re: [R] boxplot

2009-11-18 Thread Tal Galili
I believe drawBoxplot doesn't exist. Are you looking for ?boxplot ? Tal -- My contact information: Tal Galili E-mail: tal.gal...@gmail.com Phone number: 972-52-7275845 FaceBook: Tal Galili My Blogs: http://www.talgalili.com (Web and general,

Re: [R] Plotting Histogram using histogram() and for loop and Iwant to save the histogram individually ... HELP

2009-11-18 Thread Tal Galili
Change the factor names of var in: y~x | var Tal -- My contact information: Tal Galili E-mail: tal.gal...@gmail.com Phone number: 972-52-7275845 FaceBook: Tal Galili My Blogs: http://www.talgalili.com (Web and general, Hebrew)

[R] reduce matrix

2009-11-18 Thread lloyd barcza
I am trying to reduce the dimension of matrix by removing zero elements and creating a sub-matrix. For example: A= [1,0,0,3; 0,1,2,0; 0,0,3,5] then the new matrix B would be: B= [1,3;1,2;3,5] There are the same number of zero elements in each row of A so dimension of B will not be a

Re: [R] reduce matrix

2009-11-18 Thread Dimitris Rizopoulos
one way is the following: A - rbind(c(1,0,0,3), c(0,1,2,0), c(0,0,3,5)) t(apply(A, 1, function (x) x[x != 0])) I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris lloyd barcza wrote: I am trying to reduce the dimension of matrix by removing zero elements and creating a sub-matrix. For example: A= [1,0,0,3;

Re: [R] parsing numeric values

2009-11-18 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try this: strapply(input, ([0-9]+\\.[0-9]+E-[0-9]+), c, simplify = rbind, combine = as.numeric) On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:57 AM, baptiste auguie baptiste.aug...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear list, I'm seeking advice to extract some numeric values from a log file created by an external program.

[R] Optimal parameters for Savitzky-Golay smoothing filter (loop)

2009-11-18 Thread Ismail, Riyad
Hi I am running a Savitzky-Golay smoothing filter (http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/02/0385.html) for variables in my dataset, dim (272:90). I managed to run the code for individual variables in the dataset and then combine the results into a single dataset. My novice attempt at this

Re: [R] re placing the dates format in R for exporting the data set...

2009-11-18 Thread jim holtman
?write.table If you read the help file, and do a little experimenting, you will see that there is a parameter 'rownames=FALSE' that may answer your question. Also since you did not have column names on your input, you get V1, V2,... You can put your own column names. It helps again to read the

Re: [R] Presentation of data in Graphical format

2009-11-18 Thread Sunita Patil
Thanx but I am not able to find a graph that wud suit my data Regards Our Thoughts have the Power to Change our Destiny. Sunita On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 8:54 PM, milton ruser milton.ru...@gmail.comwrote: Google R graph grallery Google R ggplot2 Google R lattice and good luck milton On

Re: [R] parsing numeric values

2009-11-18 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
A minor variant might be the following: library(gsubfn) strapply(input, \\d+\\.\\d+E[-+]?\\d+, as.numeric, simplify = rbind) where: - as.numeric is used in place of c in which case we do not need combine - \\d+ matches one or more digits - \\. matches a decimal point - [-+]? matches -, +

Re: [R] Importing tRNA data into R ?

2009-11-18 Thread Benilton Carvalho
readFASTA in the BioConductor Biostrings package. b On Nov 18, 2009, at 8:14 AM, Tal Galili wrote: Hello dear R help group, I would like to download the tRNA data on: http://gtrnadb.ucsc.edu/download.html And then import it into R. Can anyone direct me as to how to do so? Thanks, Tal

Re: [R] SVM Param Tuning with using SNOW package

2009-11-18 Thread raluca
Hi Charlie, Yes, you are perfectly right, when I make the clusters I should put 2, not 10 (it remained 10 from previous trials with 10 slaves). cl- makeCluster(2, type=SOCK ) To tell the truth I do not understand very well what the 2nd parameter for clusterApplyLB() has to be. If the

[R] where can I download package svIO?

2009-11-18 Thread Dagmar Orlikowski
Hello, today I upgraded R to 2.10 and Tinn-R to 2.3.3.1. Tinn-R needs the package svIO, but it is not available anymore on the package lists. Every session I start R and chose the CRAN-Mirror I receive the following warning: Bitte einen CRAN Spiegel für diese Sitzung auswählen --- Warnmeldung:

[R] Spectrum confidence interval

2009-11-18 Thread Clément Poirier
Dear useRs, I'd like to plot a confidence interval on a periodogram. My problem is that spec.pgram(sunspots,ci=0.95,log=yes) gives me a blue error bar on the plot, but spec.pgram(sunspots,ci=0.95,log=no) does not. My questions are: 1. how should I plot the confidence interval with log=no? 2.

[R] Effective measurement of point-polygon distance

2009-11-18 Thread titten tei
Dear list I have two datasets, one with a large number of point coordinates, the other with spatial polygons. I want to measure the shortest distance from each point to the border of all polygons, and then store the results as a column in a data frame. (Or a vector that can be turned into a column

Re: [R] Switch Help

2009-11-18 Thread oscar linares
Thanks for the Rxpert advice! I am up and running again... Oscar On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Colin Millar c.mil...@marlab.ac.uk wrote: I think you just missed some commas out... aar - function(command = c(scrn, dx, df)) { command - match.arg(command) switch(command, scrn =

Re: [R] parsing numeric values

2009-11-18 Thread baptiste auguie
Thanks a lot, both of you. Incidentally, I made R crash when I forgot the X argument to strapply, library(gsubfn) Loading required package: tcltk Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done strapply(test, as.numeric) *** caught bus error *** address 0x13c, cause 'non-existent physical address'

Re: [R] Presentation of data in Graphical format

2009-11-18 Thread Tal Galili
I would start with ?boxplot -- My contact information: Tal Galili E-mail: tal.gal...@gmail.com Phone number: 972-52-7275845 FaceBook: Tal Galili My Blogs: http://www.talgalili.com (Web and general, Hebrew) http://www.biostatistics.co.il (Statistics,

Re: [R] where can I download package svIO?

2009-11-18 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Hello, All sv packages are undergoing a major revision that makes them incompatible for some functions with the previous ones (among them, functions that were used by Tinn-R. However, Tinn-R is now supposed to use its own TinnR packages that uses its own version of the old functions, so

Re: [R] reduce matrix

2009-11-18 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:18:08 -0800 (PST) lloyd barcza floyd...@yahoo.com wrote: I am trying to reduce the dimension of matrix by removing zero elements and creating a sub-matrix. For example: A= [1,0,0,3; 0,1,2,0; 0,0,3,5] then the new matrix B would be: B= [1,3;1,2;3,5] There

Re: [R] Importing tRNA data into R ?

2009-11-18 Thread James W. MacDonald
Hi Tal, Tal Galili wrote: Hello dear R help group, I would like to download the tRNA data on: http://gtrnadb.ucsc.edu/download.html And then import it into R. Can anyone direct me as to how to do so? You probably want the readFASTA() function in Biostrings, which is part of Bioconductor.

[R] Error system is computationally singular by using function dmvnorm

2009-11-18 Thread Alla Bulashevska
Dear R users, i try to use function dmvnorm(x, mean, sigma, log=FALSE) from R package mvtnorm to calculate the probability of x under the multivariate normal distribution with mean equal to mean and covariance matrix sigma. I become the following Error in solve.default(cov, ...) : system is

[R] xts timeseries

2009-11-18 Thread Jan Daniel Semrau
Hi, I try to calculate the correlation between macroeconomic data from FRED vs Market Data However, since the timeseries are not in synch, the correlation fails. require(quantmod) USPBS =get(getSymbols(USPBS, src=FRED )) USPBS = USPBS['1983-1-1::'] monDMANEMP = Cl(to.monthly(USPBS))

Re: [R] A combinatorial optimization problem: finding the best permutation of a complex vector

2009-11-18 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Hi Erwin, Thank you for the information about Cplex. It seems quite impressive. Is it a proprietary software? I saw that there is a Matlab interface to it. Is there an R interface? Thanks, Ravi. --- Ravi

Re: [R] Importing tRNA data into R ?

2009-11-18 Thread Tal Galili
A warm thank you to both James and Benilton. James, I will go on that list and start looking around. Best, Tal -- My contact information: Tal Galili E-mail: tal.gal...@gmail.com Phone number: 972-52-7275845 FaceBook: Tal Galili My Blogs:

Re: [R] SVM Param Tuning with using SNOW package

2009-11-18 Thread David Winsemius
I cannot really be sure what you are trying to do, but doing a bit of surgery on your code lets it run on a multicore Mac: library(e1071) library(snow) library(pls) data(gasoline) X=gasoline$NIR Y=gasoline$octane NR=10 cost1=seq(0.5,30, length=NR) sv.lin- function(c) { for (i in 1:NR) {

Re: [R] A combinatorial optimization problem: finding the best permutation of a complex vector

2009-11-18 Thread Ravi Varadhan
I just saw that Cplex is a commercial software from ILOG/IBM, and that there is an R interface, Rcplex, for it. While this is bad news, it is still encouraging to know that the LSAP problem can be solved faster. I will keep looking for better/faster open source algorithms. Ravi.

Re: [R] Error system is computationally singular by using function dmvnorm

2009-11-18 Thread Ravi Varadhan
It means that your covariance matrix sigma is numerically singular. Ravi. --- Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, The Center on Aging and Health Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology Johns Hopkins

[R] levelplot

2009-11-18 Thread wenjun zheng
Hi, R Users When I use the default package lattice, I found a problem about adjusting the Figure Margin that can be changed by par(mai or mar) in traditional plots. So it's hard for me to add top and right axis. Any suggestions will be appreciated. -- Wenjun [[alternative HTML version

[R] foor loop - undefined columns selected error

2009-11-18 Thread Michela Leonardi
Dear R-Help Members, I am trying to read and analyse a set of 100 csv files. I need work only on some columns in each of those, so I decided to use a for loop, isolate the column in each file to work on, but then an error mesage appear: undefined columns selected Here is my code:

Re: [R] Presentation of data in Graphical format

2009-11-18 Thread Sunita Patil
Yes I tried all the basic ones like box plot, pie chart, etc but the data representation isnt that clear. Regards Our Thoughts have the Power to Change our Destiny. Sunita On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Tal Galili tal.gal...@gmail.com wrote: I would start with ?boxplot

Re: [R] Problems by saving Rprofile.site under vista

2009-11-18 Thread anna_l
Hello, I found a solution to the problem, quite easy. The R paste was on read-only, so I went to the properties/security. Apparently he considers me as a user and not an administrator when I open the files so I just gave the users ( me) the authorization to modificate and it worked. anna_l

Re: [R] vignettes: .png graphics or pre-compiled .pdf

2009-11-18 Thread Michael Friendly
Achim Zeileis wrote: On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Michael Friendly wrote: Alternatively, is there a way to generate .png graphs from the .Rnw file so that those are used in building the .pdf for the package? AFAICS, \SweaveOpts{} offers only the choices of eps/pdf = {TRUE/FALSE}. Yes, but you can

Re: [R] A combinatorial optimization problem: finding the best permutation of a complex vector

2009-11-18 Thread Gottlieb, Neil
Ravi: Cplex use to be an independent firm. Was acquired by Ilog which was acquired by IBM. It has a nice callable API which is written in C++. It is a very good product. The other optimizer you might want to look at that performs fast is FortMP which might provide source code also. I last

Re: [R] Presentation of data in Graphical format

2009-11-18 Thread Petr PIKAL
Hi r-help-boun...@r-project.org napsal dne 18.11.2009 16:01:27: Yes I tried all the basic ones like box plot, pie chart, etc but the data representation isnt that clear. I agree with Tal. But it partly depends on your data. If you have many levels and only few time values in each boxplot

Re: [R] vignettes: .png graphics or pre-compiled .pdf

2009-11-18 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Michael Friendly wrote: Achim Zeileis wrote: On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Michael Friendly wrote: Alternatively, is there a way to generate .png graphs from the .Rnw file so that those are used in building the .pdf for the package? AFAICS, \SweaveOpts{} offers only the choices

[R] converting a vector of bytes to a PNG/JPEG image

2009-11-18 Thread Rajarshi Guha
Hi, I have some code that uses rJava. One of the Java side methods returns a byte[] representing the bytes from a PNG image. What I'd like to do is to be able to bring up the PNG on the R side (I can bring up a Swing window to show the PNG but I want to avoid that). I have looked at the pixmap

Re: [R] Presentation of data in Graphical format

2009-11-18 Thread Sunita Patil
I have been using R just very recently, I have gone through this http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/ a few weeks back but I am not able to understand as to how to choose the graph amongst them? Can anyone guide me regarding this? Thanks in advance Regards Our Thoughts have the Power to Change

Re: [R] A combinatorial optimization problem: finding the best permutation of a complex vector

2009-11-18 Thread Erwin Kalvelagen
See also: http://yetanothermathprogrammingconsultant.blogspot.com/2009/11/assignment-problem.html http://yetanothermathprogrammingconsultant.blogspot.com/2009/11/assignment-problem.html Erwin Kalvelagen Amsterdam Optimization

[R] Creating an excel file and manipulating it from R

2009-11-18 Thread anna_l
Hello everybody, I´ve been looking for a function that would create an excel file in my working directory where I would write my dataframe but I only found the functions to write or read in an existing file that you gave me on my former post or on some websites. I can´t find either functions to

Re: [R] Presentation of data in Graphical format

2009-11-18 Thread Sunita Patil
yes in my data the 1st column is the main category say suppose Secretary the second column is the sub category HR Dept the 3rd column is the list of duties performed by the Secretary from HR dept and 4th column is time required to perform the duty so there are many such posts and dept with varied

Re: [R] Writing a data frame in an excel file

2009-11-18 Thread anna_l
Hi Charlie, I´ve been trying to use the sqlSave the way you showed me but it would give me this error message which I couldn´t solve: Erro em sqlSave(xlsFile, strategy, tablename = Result, rownames = FALSE) : table ‘Result’ already exists I would like to save the data frame in a specified

[R] mann-whitney test with more groups

2009-11-18 Thread Kim Vanselow
Dear r-helpers, I want to test groups of samples for significant differences. Question: Does Group1 differ significantly from group2. This is a question to be answered by mann-whitney-u-test. I know that I can use wilcox.test with 2 samples. My problem: How can r perform the test automatically

Re: [R] Presentation of data in Graphical format

2009-11-18 Thread hadley wickham
Yes I tried all the basic ones like box plot, pie chart, etc but the data representation isnt that clear. Given that you have neither provided your data, nor explained what you are trying to uncover from it, what sort of advice do you expect to get? Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/

Re: [R] parsing numeric values

2009-11-18 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Thanks. This is now fixed in the development version so that it gives an error rather than crashing: library(gsubfn) Loading required package: proto Loading required package: tcltk Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done source(http://gsubfn.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/R/gsubfn.R;) strapply(test,

Re: [R] Presentation of data in Graphical format

2009-11-18 Thread Sunita Patil
Hello Sir I had given a sample of my data, As I cannot disclose whole of my data this is just a sample given 1st column: Posts (GM, Secretary, AM, Office Boy) 2nd Column: Dept (Finance, HR, ...) 3rd column: Tasks (Open the door, Fix an appointment, Fill the register, etc.) depending on the

Re: [R] Creating an excel file and manipulating it from R

2009-11-18 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try the RDCOMClient [1] package. [1]http://www.omegahat.org/RDCOMClient/ On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:31 PM, anna_l lippelann...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello everybody, I´ve been looking for a function that would create an excel file in my working directory where I would write my dataframe but I

Re: [R] foor loop - undefined columns selected error

2009-11-18 Thread Peter Ehlers
Michela Leonardi wrote: Dear R-Help Members, I am trying to read and analyse a set of 100 csv files. I need work only on some columns in each of those, so I decided to use a for loop, isolate the column in each file to work on, but then an error mesage appear: undefined columns selected Here

Re: [R] Presentation of data in Graphical format

2009-11-18 Thread hadley wickham
That is not enough information for anyone to suggest a useful plot. For a start: * How many observations do you have? * How many difference posts/departments/tasks? * Are the variables nested or crossed? * Have you successfully parsed the time representation into something R can work with?

Re: [R] Presentation of data in Graphical format

2009-11-18 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, (Sorry, I didn't cc the r-help list) On Nov 18, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Sunita Patil wrote: I have been using R just very recently, I have gone through this http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/ a few weeks back but I am not able to understand as to how to choose the graph amongst them?

Re: [R] Writing a data frame in an excel file

2009-11-18 Thread anna_l
Sorry Charlie, I didn´t understand that tablename=R Results was creating a worksheet. But the thing now is that it works very well when I write for the first time on the excel file but when I want to rewrite on it it gives the error i wrote before saying that Results already exists, is there a

Re: [R] Presentation of data in Graphical format

2009-11-18 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi (again), On Nov 18, 2009, at 10:53 AM, Sunita Patil wrote: Hello Sir I had given a sample of my data, As I cannot disclose whole of my data this is just a sample given 1st column: Posts (GM, Secretary, AM, Office Boy) 2nd Column: Dept (Finance, HR, ...) 3rd column: Tasks (Open the

Re: [R] Presentation of data in Graphical format

2009-11-18 Thread Sunita Patil
Hello Sir I have got 150 observations, got 10 posts/ 6 departments/ tasks vary from 5 to 10, A few of the variables are crossed specially in case of Office boy, where the tasks are like open the door, put on the lights, Yes time variable I have used Chron package, so that it works well My aim

Re: [R] mann-whitney test with more groups

2009-11-18 Thread Peter Ehlers
Kim Vanselow wrote: Dear r-helpers, I want to test groups of samples for significant differences. Question: Does Group1 differ significantly from group2. This is a question to be answered by mann-whitney-u-test. I know that I can use wilcox.test with 2 samples. My problem: How can r perform

Re: [R] mann-whitney test with more groups

2009-11-18 Thread Peter Ehlers
Sorry, correction below. Peter Ehlers wrote: Kim Vanselow wrote: Dear r-helpers, I want to test groups of samples for significant differences. Question: Does Group1 differ significantly from group2. This is a question to be answered by mann-whitney-u-test. I know that I can use wilcox.test

[R] How to install older version of R?

2009-11-18 Thread Pan,
Dear list This is much like a linux problem, but I can't find any reference for it. My OS is ubuntu 9.04 and a version of 2.9.2 of R has been already installed in. Now, I need to install the version of 2.7.1. I google a lot of websites and it seems like without a painless way provided me

Re: [R] Writing a data frame in an excel file

2009-11-18 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:02:47 -0800 (PST) anna_l lippelanna21 @hotmail.com wrote: Sorry Charlie, I didn?t understand that tablename=R Results was creating a worksheet. But the thing now is that it works very well when I write for the first time on the excel file but when I want to rewrite on it

Re: [R] SVM Param Tuning with using SNOW package

2009-11-18 Thread Max Kuhn
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:01 PM, raluca uca...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello, Is the first time I am using SNOW package and I am trying to tune the cost parameter for a linear SVM, where the cost (variable cost1) takes 10 values between 0.5 and 30. I have a large dataset and a pc which is not

[R] Method dispatch for function

2009-11-18 Thread Stavros Macrakis
How can I determine what S3 method will be called for a particular first-argument class? I was imagining something like functionDispatch('str','numeric') = utils:::str.default , but I can't find anything like this. For that matter, I was wondering if anyone had written a version of `methods`

Re: [R] parsing numeric values

2009-11-18 Thread Bert Gunter
The previous elegant solutions required the use of the gsubfn package. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but I'm always curious whether still relatively simple base R solutions can be found, as they are often (but not always!) much faster. And anyway, it seems to be in the spirit of your query

Re: [R] Writing a data frame in an excel file

2009-11-18 Thread anna_l
Thanks Karl, well I am getting an error now after the following sqlSave command: sqlSave( xlsFile, datas, tablename = 'Datas_and_coefficients', rownames = FALSE ) -- [RODBC] Failed exec in Update 22018 39 [Microsoft][Driver ODBC for Excel]invalid character value for the diffusion specification

Re: [R] mann-whitney test with more groups

2009-11-18 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Peter Ehlers wrote: Sorry, correction below. Peter Ehlers wrote: Kim Vanselow wrote: Dear r-helpers, I want to test groups of samples for significant differences. Question: Does Group1 differ significantly from group2. This is a question to be answered by mann-whitney-u-test. I know that I

[R] Data linkage functions for probabilistic linkage using person identifiers

2009-11-18 Thread Dagan A WRIGHT
I am somewhat new to R although using and liking already. I am curious if there are any probabilistic packages similar in function to others such and Link King (http://www.the-link-king.com/). I am looking for functions in SSN, First/Last name, date of birth, and a couple other indicators for

[R] border/box/frame around plot

2009-11-18 Thread brbell01
Hello I need to know how to put a closed frame around my plot. I am plotting using the igraph package, and I have been able to use box() with limited success. Box() puts a border around only the upper and right edges of the plot area, but misses the axes. By default, setting the axes=TRUE in

[R] Y axis of 1-D Linear Discriminant Histograms

2009-11-18 Thread Bob Farmer
Hi all. I would like to understand what are the units defined on the y-axis when you plot the one-dimensional predictions (histograms) from lda() (MASS) discriminant function objects? While the helpfile suggests that a histogram is returned by default, the presumably proportion-like values for

Re: [R] parsing numeric values

2009-11-18 Thread baptiste auguie
Hi, Thanks for the alternative approach. However, I should have made my example more complete in that other lines may also have numeric values, which I'm not interested in. Below is an updated problem, with my current solution, tc - textConnection( some text ax =1.3770E-03 bx =

Re: [R] Writing a data frame in an excel file

2009-11-18 Thread Orvalho Augusto
Why don't try the fabulous WRITEXLS package? Caveman On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:45 PM, anna_l lippelann...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks Karl, well I am getting an error now after the following sqlSave command: sqlSave( xlsFile, datas, tablename = 'Datas_and_coefficients', rownames = FALSE )

Re: [R] parsing numeric values

2009-11-18 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
It only works if some text at the beginning has no digits, dots, E characters or sign characters. On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Bert Gunter gunter.ber...@gene.com wrote: The previous elegant solutions required the use of the gsubfn package. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but I'm always

Re: [R] parsing numeric values

2009-11-18 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Here is a slight variation: read.table(textConnection(grep(aa?[xy], input, value = TRUE)), +colClasses = c(NULL, NULL, numeric)) V3 V6 1 0.00137700 3.4644e-07 2 0.00019412 4.8840e-08 3 0.00137700 3.4644e-07 4 0.00019412 4.8840e-08 On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:54 PM,

[R] (no subject)

2009-11-18 Thread Karen Federico
How do you perform a multicollinearity test using R. Also how do you perform a selection stepwise to carry out a multiple regression analysis? [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list

[R] How to choose appropriate linear model? (ANOVA)

2009-11-18 Thread Peng Yu
I'm wondering how to choose an appropriate linear model for a given problem. I have been reading Applied Linear Regression Models by John Neter, Michael H Kutner, William Wasserman and Christopher J. Nachtsheim. I'm still not clear how to choose an appropriate linear model. For multi-factor

Re: [R] (no subject)

2009-11-18 Thread Moritz Fromwald
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=multicollinearity+test+using+R http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=selection+stepwise+multiple+regression+analysis+using+R Moritz Karen Federico schrieb: How do you perform a multicollinearity test using R. Also how do you perform a selection stepwise to carry out a multiple

[R] standard error for the estimated value (lmer fitted model)

2009-11-18 Thread willow1980
Dear R users, I want to draw standard error lines for the predicted regression line estimated by logistic regression using lmer. I have two predictors: cafr and its quadratic form I(cafr^2), where cafr is a variable centered around the mean of original variable. Now, the estimated value from the

[R] Re ading multiple Excel 2007 files with a loop

2009-11-18 Thread Mark W. Miller
I have several hundred Excel 2007 data files in a folder. I would like to read every file in a single given folder using a loop. I have searched the FAQ, the forum archives here, other or older R boards and the R Import / Export documentation, and have asked some very knowledgeable R users

Re: [R] How to choose appropriate linear model? (ANOVA)

2009-11-18 Thread Tal Galili
Hello Peng, What you are talking about is model selection process. Although it also sound like you are referring to the more general subject of regression model strategies, consider finding this book: http://www.amazon.com/Regression-Modeling-Strategies-Frank-Harrell/dp/0387952322 Frank Harrell

Re: [R] parsing numeric values

2009-11-18 Thread baptiste auguie
another useful trick that could come in handy, thanks! baptiste 2009/11/18 Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com: Here is a slight variation: read.table(textConnection(grep(aa?[xy], input, value = TRUE)), +    colClasses = c(NULL, NULL, numeric))          V3         V6 1 0.00137700

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